WASHINGTON -- The family of the social scientist who died after being attacked with a burning pitcher of gasoline in Afghanistan is asking a federal judge to be lenient with the New Orleans security contractor who apprehended and later shot and killed her attacker. Sentencing the man to prison "would be putting our family through even more anguish," said Paul Loyd, the brother of Paula Loyd, 36, who died in a San Antonio hospital two months after the attack that burned 60 percent of her body. Don Ayala, 46, who has lived in New Orleans for the past five or...