Texas Executes Mentally Retarded Man

Ignoring its own ruling that prohibits the execution of mentally retarded individuals, the United States Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the appeal of a Texas man with an IQ of 61 convicted of murdering a police drug informant. Following the high court's denial, 54-year-old Marvin Wilson was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas. Wilson was pronounced dead 14 minutes after being injected with a single deadly drug; he was the secondTexas prisoner killed using the state's new single-drug protocol.

'I Only Shot A Ni**er', Florida Gunman Tells Police

A man was shot in the head at an apartment building in Port St. Joe, Florida, by another tenant who remarked to police that he was unsure why they were arresting him because he "only shot a ni**er." The man survived the attack and is in the hospital. The trouble began when the alleged shooter, Walton Henry Butler, 59, was shouting racial expletives at a group of black children. The children are said to have reported this to their parents, and Everett Gant, 32, went to confront Walton.

Off-Duty Cop Fatally Shoots Man After Accident

Off duty officer hits a 4 year old girl with a motorcycle, child dad get vivid then shot by the unidentified cop.

12-Year-Old Girl Tasered In Victoria's Secret (Dejamon Baker)

A 12-year-old girl was Tasered by a police officer inside a Victoria's Secret store in St. Louis last week. The officer says that the girl, Dejamon Baker, was physically interfering and refusing to back away as he attempted to arrest her mother, Charlene Bratton, according to KSDK. He had approached Bratton because she had several outstanding warrants for unresolved traffic tickets, the station reported.

Innocent Deaf Woman Tased And Jailed

An innocent deaf woman in Tacoma, Washington says that police shocked her with a Taser and then put her in jail for almost three days with no interpreter after she called 911 to report a guest had attacked her in her own apartment. Lashonn White told KIRO that she called 911 on April 6 with the help of a certified American Sign Language interpreter.