Allen suffered a heart attack shortly before the execution which left him lifeless. California authorities revived the frail old man, so that he could be summarily executed the proper way.

CNN, USA Today, and Gallup pulled their expertise together to conduct a poll which produced some rather surprising results. 1,003 adults were polled over a three day period beginning January 6, 2006 through January 8, 2006.

California law, like the laws in many other states, requires employees to give a minimum of 30 minutes unpaid lunch breaks to employees who work at least six hours. Several California workers claim Wal-Mart illegally demanded these breaks be skipped (and of course, in the process, save a bundle of money either by working employees through these unpaid breaks or by recognizing more benefit from their cheap labor pool.