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Jason Fife was sentenced to probation and community service after harassing his estranged wife's boyfriend with a special package delivery. Fife, said his lawyer, now "understands that in a civilized society, a person cannot send [someone] a severed cow's head ...."

In January, just after police in Tyler, Texas, took Christopher McCuin, 25, into custody on suspicion of killing and eating parts of his girlfriend (an ear was found in water on the stove), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent the sheriff a fax demanding that McCuin receive only a vegetarian diet, suggesting that too much meat-eating had already occurred in the case.

Officials in the Shivpuri district of India's Madhya Pradesh state, needing a promising program to slow the country's still-booming birth rate, announced in March that men who volunteer for vasectomies will be rewarded with certificates that speed them through the ordinarily slow line to obtain gun permits. Said an administrator, the loss, through vasectomy, of a "perceived notion of manliness" would be offset "with a bigger symbol of manliness."

In Durant, Okla., a man convicted of making and selling methamphetamine was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Before he was led away to serve his time, however, he asked someone to marry him to his girlfriend. The police chief there was an ordained minister so he married the couple before the convict was led away. It was reportedly very emotional and many people in the courtroom left in tears afterward. WHAT?

“Look, it is no big deal,” Christopher Wilkins told the Fort Worth, Texas, jury trying to decide in March whether to send him to death row or life in prison. “I’m as undecided (about that) as you are.”

Wilkins even belittled his own attorneys for bringing his family in to beg the jury for mercy: “They (my lawyers) sprung that charade on me,” he told the jury. When his attorneys suggested that his murders were not cold-blooded but were the result of drug use, Wilkins said, “I wouldn’t put too much weight on that.”
Before leaving the witness stand, Wilkins complimented the prosecutor (“You’re doing a fine job”) and added, “I haven’t been any good to anybody for the last 20 years, and I won’t be for the next 20 or the 20 after that.”

The jury chose the death penalty.