Georgia moved forward with preparations to execute a convicted killer, who on Tuesday night could become the first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a three-drug lethal injection procedure.

Barring a last-minute reprieve from the courts, William Earl Lynd will be put to death at 7 p.m. Tuesday, making him the first prisoner executed since September, when the high court took up a challenge to lethal injection and effectively halted all executions nationwide for seven months. Read more

Police have arrested 96 people - " 75 of them students - " in a drug bust at San Diego State University, law enforcement sources say. via ABC News

"The way the war on drugs has been pursued is one of the biggest reasons for the growing racial disparities in criminal justice over all"

More than two decades after President Ronald Reagan escalated the war on drugs, arrests for drug sales or, more often, drug possession are still rising. via HeraldTribune.com

"In the end the real victim is society"

The Crown tried to have the Hells Angels declared a criminal organization while trying three men for drug trafficking offences. via CBC News

Former Hamilton County Sheriff Billy Long today changed his plea to guilty on 27 of 28 counts of extortion, money laundering, drug and gun charges filed against him in U.S. District Court. via Chattanooga Times Free Press