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FILE - This file photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Nathaniel Burkett. A death penalty trial has been pushed back to Jan. 12, 2015, for the aging ex-convict arrested last July in Mississippi and returned to Las Vegas to face murder and sex assault charges in the slayings of three women in 1978 and 1994.(AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, File)
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Detroit Institute of Arts collections manageers Jim Fuqua, left, and Steve Shaw hang an oil on oak panel painting by Flemish artist Frans Snyders entitled Still Life with Fruit and Dead Hare that was previously down in conservations Wednesday Jan. 22, 2014. Today Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder pledged $350 million in state funds over two decades to boost Detroit pension funds and protect the DIA art from any sale to satisfy creditors of the bankrupt city.((AP Photo/ Daniel Mears The Detroit News )
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In this undated 2008 photo provided by Press Publications is the Rev. Jon Shelley. Minnesota prosecutors said Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 they would not charge Shelley, an archdiocesan priest who had been accused of possessing child pornography. His case was among several that raised questions about the Minneapolis-St. Paul archdiocese's handling of abuse cases after a church insider went public with her concerns. (AP Photo/Press Publications, Deb Barnes)
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This handout photo provided by the Brookings Institution, taken Jan. 13, 2012, shows Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution speaking in Washington. If the gap between haves and have-nots is the defining issue of President Barack Obama’s second term, his health care overhaul was its first-term counterpart. Now it turns out the two are linked: new research shows that Obama’s health care law will significantly boost the economic fortunes of people in the bottom fifth of the income ladder. Obama may be hard pressed to top his first-term accomplishment. (AP Photo/Ralph Alswang, Brooking Institution)
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Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing oversight hearing on the Justice Department. As attorney general, Holder has approved pursuing the death penalty in at least 34 criminal cases, upholding a long-ago pledge to Congress that he would vigorously enforce federal law even though he’s not a proponent of capital punishment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Dan Lyle, of Payson, shows his supports during a rally for the opponents of gay marriage at the Utah State Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Opponents and supporters of gay marriage held twin rallies at the Utah State Capitol on Tuesday evening. The opposing gatherings are the latest square-off over gay marriage, an issue that took Utah by surprise over the past month. More than 1,000 gay couples rushed to wed when a federal judge overturned Utah's constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in late December. Voters approved the amendment in 2004. Same-sex marriages continued in Utah until early January, when the U.S. Supreme Court granted Utah's request for an emergency halt to the weddings. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
