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• 7. BATTLE FLAG FROM THE USS TEXAS GOES ON DISPLAY IN HOUSTON
• It's being exhibited at the city's Museum of Natural Science to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
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• 8. CAT LITTER'S POSSIBLE LINK TO RADIATION RELEASE
• Officials in New Mexico are trying to figure out if a switch from nonorganic to organic litter caused a chemical reaction leading to the leak.
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• 9. THE LATEST TOOL FOR TRACKING FOOD POISONING: YELP
• Health officials in New York City found three unreported outbreaks by reading restaurant reviews on the website.
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• 10. WHERE TO FIND THE BEST BEACH IN AMERICA
• Honolulu's Duke Kahanamoku Beach has been dubbed the best public beach in the nation in an annual survey.
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AP News in Brief
Tennessee governor signs bill to allow electric chair if lethal injection drugs unavailable
• NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- As the rest of the nation debates the feasibility and humanity of lethal injections against a backdrop of scarce drugs and botched executions, Tennessee has come up with an alternative: the electric chair.
• Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law Thursday allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event prisons are unable to obtain the drugs, which have become more and more scarce following a European-led boycott of drug sales for executions.
• Tennessee lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the electric chair legislation in April, with the Senate voting 23-3 and the House 68-13 in favor of the bill.
• Tennessee is the first state to enact a law to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that opposes executions and tracks the issue.
• "There are states that allow inmates to choose, but it is a very different matter for a state to impose a method like electrocution," he said. "No other state has gone so (Continued on page 31)
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