In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times: Maura Dolan and Henry Weinstein report that “Concerns About Pain Put Lethal Injection on Trial.”

A related op-ed, by Jamie Fellnerm is entitled “Lethal yes, painless no: The three-drug cocktail used in executions may leave prisoners suffering horribly but paralyzed, unable to say anything.”

And in other news, “Activist Wants to See Judges Judged.”

“At Los Angeles Times, a Columnist Who Used a False Web Name Loses His Blog”: This article appears today in The New York Times. Patrick Frey, who blogs at “Patterico’s Pontifications,” occupies a central role in the unmasking.

And today in The Washington Post, Media Notes columnist Howard Kurtz has an essay entitled “Columnist’s Blog: He Hasn’t Been Himself Lately.”

“Blawg Review #54”: Available here, at “bk! Brandy Karl’s IP blog.”