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In this March 13, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Secretary Monique Jacobson, right, and New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Barbara Vigil talk about a new task force that will be reviewing the state's juvenile justice system during a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M., on Thursday, April 13, 2017. New Mexico and Nevada were chosen by the U.S. Justice Department to receive technical assistance for the initiative, which is aimed at finding ways to improve the outcomes of children who are in the system. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, walks to speak with reporters outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 13, 2017, after President Donald Trump signed H.J. Res. 43, which allows states to withhold federal funds from facilities that provide abortion services. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **
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Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, right, and Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, left, listen as Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America, speaks with reporters outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 13, 2017, after President Donald Trump signed signed H.J. Res. 43, which allows states to withhold federal funds from facilities that provide abortion services. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, right, listens as Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks with reporters outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 13, 2017, after President Donald Trump signed signed H.J. Res. 43, which allows states to withhold federal funds from facilities that provide abortion services. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2012, file photo, documentary subject Damien Echols, from the film "West of Memphis," poses for a portrait in Park City, Utah. Echols, who spent nearly 18 years on Arkansas' death row before he and two others were freed in 2011 as part of a plea deal in which they maintained their innocence, is a vocal critic who plans to be in Little Rock, Ark., on Friday, April 14, 2017, for a rally to protest the scheduled executions of seven death-row inmates before the end of the month. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2015, file photo, Sister Helen Prejean, famous for the book "Dead Man Walking" about her work with death-row inmates, greets students and signs books after speaking at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Prejean, a death penalty opponent, has taken to Twitter to fight the scheduled executions of seven Arkansas death-row inmates before the end of April 2017. At times she has tweeted the phone numbers of Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Attorney General Leslie Rutledge. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
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FILE - In this March 24, 2017, file photo, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., center, one of the stewards of the Republican healthcare legislation, walks through Statuary Hall after leaving the Capitol Hill office of House Speaker Paul Ryan in Washington, D.C. The television and digital ads, unveiled earlier this week, pressure Republicans to a back a revised version of the GOP health care bill that Speaker Paul Ryan abruptly withdrew last month because it lacked the votes. The ads will air in some districts including that of Walden, who was instrumental in pushing for the original health care bill through his panel. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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Stephanie Packer, a chronically ill patient, tells reporters she opposes physician-assisted suicide on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, at the Nevada Legislature in Carson City, Nev. She joined doctors and other activists against Senate Bill 261 at a news conference after Democratic lawmakers cancelled a hearing on the proposal that would allow Nevada physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to patients with prognoses of six months or less to live. (AP Photo/Alison Noon) ** FILE **
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Executing the Guily and the Innocent Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Seven prisoners have been scheduled to die in the Arkansas prison system as the state rushes to use an execution drug that expires at the end of April. The plan has drawn the ire of capital punishment foes, but victims' families are demanding justice. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this April 28, 2014 file photo, the Phoenix VA Health Care Center in Phoenix. The Veterans Affairs Department unveiled a new website Wednesday, April 12, 2107, aimed at providing information on the quality of care at VA medical centers, touting new accountability even as it grappled with fresh questions of patient safety in its beleaguered health system. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Rodney Reed. The state's top criminal appeals court is refusing to allow additional DNA testing of evidence in the lengthy Central Texas death penalty case of Reed. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals says the request by Reed's attorneys was the latest of a number of legal moves to unreasonably delay his execution for the April 1996 abduction, rape and strangling of 19-year-old Stacy Stites. Her body was found off the side of a road in Bastrop County. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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In this April 28, 2014, file photo, the Phoenix VA Health Care Center in Phoenix. The Veterans Affairs Department unveiled a new website Wednesday, April 12, 2107, aimed at providing information on the quality of care at VA medical centers, touting new accountability even as it grappled with fresh questions of patient safety in its beleaguered health system. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, file photo, Leon Brown listens to evidence during a court hearing for him and his half brother, death row inmate Henry McCollum in Lumberton, N.C. The half-brothers wrongfully imprisoned for three decades in the killing of an 11-year-old girl have reached a settlement with investigators who helped put them behind bars. (Chuck Liddy/The News & Observer via AP, File)
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These undated photos provided by the Chenango County Sheriff's Department in Norwich, N.Y. shows Heather and Ernest Franklin. The couple decided to kill their disabled adoptive son and cover up the crime with a house fire after watching the Oscar-winning movie "Manchester by the Sea," according to the New York prosecutor handling the case. (Chenango County Sheriff's Department/WBNG News via AP)
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FILE - In this April 15, 2016, file photo, Tammy and John Sadek, parents of Andrew Sadek, a North Dakota college student who was a confidential informant for a drug task force before he turned up dead, talk about the case at a news conference in Fargo, N.D. Almost three years after Andrew's death, the North Dakota Legislature is putting the final touches on a bill aimed at better protecting confidential drug informants. The bill called "Andrew's Law" comes after his parents lobbied lawmakers to pass legislation which clarifies the rights of people offered the role. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Chenango County Sherriffs Office shows Heather Franklin. Ernest and Heather Franklin decided to kill their disabled adoptive son and cover up the crime with a house fire after watching the Oscar-winning movie "Manchester by the Sea," according to the New York prosecutor handling the case. (Chenango County Sherriffs Office via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Chenango County Sherriffs Office shows Ernest Franklin. Ernest and Heather Franklin decided to kill their disabled adoptive son and cover up the crime with a house fire after watching the Oscar-winning movie "Manchester by the Sea," according to the New York prosecutor handling the case. (Chenango County Sherriffs Office via AP)
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Demonstrators are watched by police as they protest against the amendment of the higher education law that could force a Budapest university founded by billionaire American philanthropist George Soros to close, in front of the Ministry of Human Resources, in Budapest, Sunday, April 9, 2017. Hungarian President Janos Ader said Monday April 10, 2017, in a statement that he has signed the bill setting new conditions for foreign universities in line with the Constitution, and called on the government to “immediately” begin talks with the affected institutions to secure compliance with the new rules.(Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP)
