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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson, arm and arm with his lawyer Billy Martin, leaves the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of witness tampering. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson heads to his car after leaving the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of witness tampering. At right is his lawyer Billy Martin. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson speaks to the media outside the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of witness tampering. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson speaks to the media outside the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of witness tampering. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson, left, and lawyer Billy Martin, speak to the media outside the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of witness tampering. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson heads to his car after leaving the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of witness tampering. At right is his lawyer Billy Martin. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Daniel Bedford was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, for the 1984 killings of his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Corrections)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, is among GOP leaders insisting on binding changes in the short term to discretionary spending and in the long term to entitlement spending. The federal government hit its debt limit on May 16. (AP Photo)
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Rahm Emanuel and his wife, Amy Rule, acknowledge the crowd Monday before Mr. Emanuel 's swearing in as Chicago's mayor, succeeding Richard M. Daley. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, waits to be arraigned Monday in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of rape, sex abuse and other counts after a maid at a Times Square hotel said she was attacked in his penthouse suite.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The International Criminal Court prosecutor has asked judges to issue an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi citing crimes against humanity.
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Rahm Emanuel (second from left) takes the oath of office as mayor of Chicago from Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans (right) of the Circuit Court of Cook County during inaugural ceremonies on Monday, May 16, 2011, in Chicago. Watching are (from left) daughter Ilana, wife Amy Rule, daughter Leah and son Zacharia. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Space shuttle Endeavour flies past the US and mission flags after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Space shuttle Endeavour clears the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Space shuttle Endeavour flies past the US Flag after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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A Pakistani police officer examines a bullet hole on the car of a Saudi consulate employee who was shot dead in Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday. Gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed the Saudi diplomat as he was driving in Pakistan's largest city on Monday, police in Karachi said. (Associated Press)
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Double-murderer Jens Soering likely would have served two years, rather than life in prison, if sent to his native Germany. (Associated Press)
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Elizabeth Haysom's parents were killed in 1985 in their Bedford County, Va., home. Her boyfriend took the blame, he says, to spare her from the death penalty.
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Imam Hafiz Khan, the leader of the Miami Mosque (above), also known as the Flagler Mosque, was arrested Saturday, May 14, 2011, in Miami and charged with providing about $50,000 in financial support to the Pakistani Taliban. (AP Photo/Jeffrey M. Boan)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS The manslaughter trial of Mark Kerrigan starts this week in the death of his father, Daniel Kerrigan, during a in the family's home. His sister, Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan is expected to testify for the prosecution.
