Charles Warner, who was executed Thursday for the killing of an 11-month-old girl in 1997, said during his last words: 'It feels like acid.' The comment came before any of the lethal drugs were administered and while he was only receiving a saline drip through an intravenous line....

Warner was the first person put to death in Oklahoma since a botched execution in April that left Curt Lockett gasping for air and writhing in pain for 43 minutes. The procedure drew national attention to the drugs used in lethal injections.

On Thursday, after the first drug, a sedative, was administered, Warner again complained: 'My body is on fire.'

You've described yourself as a fainthearted originalist. But really, how fainthearted?

I described myself as that a long time ago. I repudiate that.

So you're a stouthearted one. 

I try to be. I try to be an honest originalist! I will take the bitter with the sweet! What I used "fainthearted" in reference to was—

Flogging, right? 

Flogging. And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional. I gave a talk once where I said they ought to pass out to all federal judges a stamp, and the stamp says—Whack! [Pounds his fist.]—STUPID BUT ­CONSTITUTIONAL. Whack! [Pounds again.] STUPID BUT ­CONSTITUTIONAL! Whack! ­STUPID BUT ­CONSTITUTIONAL … [Laughs.] And then somebody sent me one.

Schools, already under intense pressure to deliver better test results and meet more rigorous standards, face the doubly difficult task of trying to raise the achievement of poor children so that they approach the same level as their more affluent peers....

Many Republicans also think that the government ought to give tax dollars to low-income families to use as vouchers for private-school tuition, believing that is a better alternative to public schools....

The report comes as Congress begins debate about rewriting the country's main federal education law, first passed as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty" and designed to help states educate poor children.

The number of players that have devoted a long night to the game is in the double-digits—including most of the team's starting offensive line, among others.... The game's object is to build settlements on the board using "resource" cards. Think of it as a fantasy version of Monopoly. "At first we're like, 'What the hell is this? Brick? Wool? What kind of game is this?'" said starting center Corey Linsley....

"Everyone is super competitive, so when you first start playing they don't tell you all the rules. So you start your moves and they say 'well, actually you can't do that' and it sort of screws you in the game," [Packers center Garth Gerhart] said. "They get very salty."...

The game's popularity among the Packers is due in part to the lack of other things to do in town. Green Bay is the smallest town in the NFL. "We're always looking for something to do, it's cold. No one wants to go outside, better find something," Flynn said. "And this is a great game."

The Court said it would rule on the power of the states to ban same-sex marriages and to refuse to recognize such marriages performed in another state. A total of two-and-a-half hours was allocated for the hearings, likely in the April sitting. A final ruling is expected by early next summer, probably in late June.