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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. A South Dakota man who beat a prison guard with a pipe and covered his head in plastic wrap to kill him during a failed escape attempt was put to death Monday, in the state's first execution since 2007. Eric Robert, 50, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls at 10:24 p.m. He is the first South Dakota inmate to die under the state's new single-drug lethal injection method, and only the 17th person to be executed in the state or Dakota Territory since 1877. Robert had no expression...

MANSFIELD TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Roy Decker can look at the photos and letters now, more than 16 years later, and spot the clues with ease. Right there, in sweeping cursive, the writings of his former Army roommate and future FBI's Most Wanted fugitive are eerie now. Right there is the Hitler reference, with future serial bomber and alleged Nazi sympathizer Eric Robert Rudolph referring to himself in a 1989 letter to Decker as "Der Furher (sic), Adolf Rudolph." Right there, on the snapshot taken by Decker at their Army camp in Kentucky in 1988, is the portrait of future survivalist...

Listening to Eric Roberts, the latest Hollyweird stooge to jump on the "Hate Bush" bandwagon, was hilarious! This guy is a total waste of breathing air! He is without a doubt a person with no great intelligence, but then you don't have to be smart to be a Hollyweird celebrity, you just to have a look looking corpse. He parroted every bogus conspiracy crap that has ever been put to the web, including "It's only for the oil!", the "Carlisle Group conspiracy!", and the "Saddam is not as evil as Bush!" loony-left ignorance. Mr. Roberts was unable to give a...