Law_Crime

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Protesters gather for a rally in the State Capitol rotunda in Lansing, Mich., Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. The crowd is protesting right-to-work legislation passed last week. Michigan could become the 24th state with a right-to-work law next week. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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Protesters gather for a rally at the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. The crowd is protesting right-to-work legislation passed last week. Michigan could become the 24th state with a right-to-work law next week. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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Protesters gather for a rally at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, to demonstrate against legislation that could make Michigan the 24th state with a right-to-work law. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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Protesters gather for a rally on the state Capitol steps in Lansing, Mich., on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. The crowd is demonstrating against legislation that would make Michigan the 24th state with a right-to-work law. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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A protester walks past Michigan State Police officers at the Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. Demonstrators are protesting legislation that would make Michigan the 24th state with a right-to-work law. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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House Speaker John A. Boehner (center), Ohio Republican — flanked by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (left), Virginia Republican, and Rep. Tom Price, Georgia Republican — speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, June 28, 2012, after the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. addresses a filibuster rally on the steps of the Capitol , Wednesday, May 18, 2005. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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**FILE** Former death row inmate Earl Washington Jr. smiles during a Feb. 12, 2001, news conference in Virginia Beach, Va., as Marie Deans, a member of his legal team, listens. Washington was released from prison thanks to DNA tests showing he was wrongly convicted in the 1982 rape and slaying of Rebecca Lynn Williams. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** This photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows the electric chair used in the July 20, 2006, execution of death row inmate Brandon Wayne Hedrick, who chose the electric chair as his method of execution rather than lethal injection. Hedrick was convicted of the 1997 abduction, robbery, rape and murder of Lisa Crider. (Associated Press/Virginia Department of Corrections)

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**FILE** Demonstrators chant slogans against the death penalty at a Sept. 21, 2011, rally in Jackson, Ga., for Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis, who was executed later that day for the 1991 murder of a police officer. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** William "Billy" Mitchell, 35, of Folkston, Ga., seen here in an undated photo, was executed in 1987 for the 1974 murder of a 14-year-old boy during a convenience store robbery. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** This undated photo provided by the Idaho Department of Correction shows death row inmate Paul Ezra Rhoades. Rhoades was convicted of three murders in Idaho Falls and Blackfoot in 1988 and sentenced to death for two of them. (Associated Press/Idaho Department of Correction)

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**FILE** An anti-death penalty protester in Jackson, Ga., is helped off the ground Sept. 21, 2011, after hearing about a delay of the execution of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis by the U.S. Supreme Court. Davis was convicted of killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail. (Associated Press)

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Damage caused by a fire in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York is shown on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. The fire department sent more than 190 firefighters to the blaze caused by superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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Manuel Pardo, 56, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday night in Florida, barring a last-minute stay. He was convicted of killing nine people in 1986. (Miami Herald via Associated Press)

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“You can release an innocent person from prison but you can't release them from the grave,” said Randy Steidl, a former death row inmate in Illinois. (Associated Press)

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Nafissatou Diallo, a hotel housekeeper who had contended she was sexually assaulted by then-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, agreed to a settlement Monday in court in New York. The amount of the settlement was kept confidential. Mr. Strauss-Kahn did not attend the hearing. (Associated Press)