As if we hadn't been facing enough horrors in this country already lately, here comes a breaking story about the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the longtime Philadelphia abortion provider accused of killing four babies and one patient, among numerous other charges. After initially splitting on two of the over 200 counts in the case -- including racketeering and conspiracy charges, as well as abortion law violations -- the jury reached a verdict today and found Gosnell guilty on three of four counts of first-degree murder. He was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the drug-overdose death of a patient who had undergone an abortion. However, the doctor was cleared in the death of a fourth baby.

The jury will return May 21 to hear evidence on whether Gosnell should get the death penalty, which almost doesn't seem like it should be much of a question given the atrocities carried out by this man and described by authorities.

Ever since accused Boston bomber Dhzokhar Tsarnaev has been in custody, I've heard people say the same thing over and over again: "He'd better get the death penalty." People want to see justice be done, and their vision of justice involves death for the remaining Tsarnaev brother. But it may not go down that way.

As we know, the charge of guilty of using a weapon of mass destruction comes with a sentence of either life in prison or the death penalty. Two recent developments in the Boston bombing case have tilted the scales away from the death penalty and toward a life sentence.

Prosecutors announced Monday that they will seek the death penalty for James Holmes, the man charged with killing 12 and wounding dozens of others in last summer’s Colorado movie theater shooting spree. Arapahoe County DA George Brauchler said, “It’s my determination and my intention that in this case for James Eagan Holmes justice is death.”

The move was not unexpected, as the prosecution rejected a plea offer from Holmes’ lawyers last week. The offer would have exchanged life in prison without the possibility for parole for a guilty plea.

It’s been three years since Congress rammed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act down our throats, and the legislation remains wildly unpopular. According to a Kaiser Health Tracking Poll last month, nearly two-thirds of Americans still have an unfavorable opinion of Obamacare.

The law made its way through the court system, with the Supreme Court eventually upholding it as constitutional last June, on the grounds that it was a tax, and not a mandate. In other words, it was decided that the government isn’t forcing Americans to buy a product they may or may not want -- it is just taxing them if they don’t.

Politicians in Florida are currently debating whether or not to pass the Infants Born Alive Act, which would require that physicians give medical attention to children born alive after a botched abortion.

Since Planned Parenthood has a dog in the abortion fight, they sent along Alisa Laport Snow, a lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, to testify on behalf of the organization. Ms. Snow stated several times that they believe that the decision to end the life of a child born alive should be left to the woman, her family, and her physician. 

In 2008, California passed Proposition 8, which defined marriage as an institution between one man and one woman in the state’s constitution. Close to 53 percent of Californians supported the measure, which is the same percentage of Americans that voted for Obama for his historic win.

Since California is a solidly blue state, it’s pretty safe to assume that if they voted overwhelmingly to keep marriage between a man and a woman, the majority of Americans as a whole probably didn’t support gay marriage.

No matter how young or old you are, "It's a Small World" is one of those songs that you hear once and then just can't stop hearing. It is enough to drive anyone mad. But it literally drove one guy to a panic attack and high blood pressure attack back in November 2009. The 50-year-old disabled man, Jose Martinez, got stuck on the Disneyland ride when it broke down. 

Martinez is paralyzed and said he got stuck in his wheelchair in the "Goodbye Room." Thus, he was forced to hear the "Small World" theme over and over again for a half hour, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. In addition to the panic attack and high blood pressure, Martinez's lawyer said his traumatized client also needed to urinate and that he could not medically stabilize for three hours after the incident. Eek. As a result, Martinez was just awarded $8,000 in damages.

Don't you hate it when you have an itchy spot on your back and you really really want to scratch it but you can't ... quite ... reach?! So annoying. Unless you have one of those backscratcher things, I guess. Or somebody to help you out. Like Billy McNeely of Yellowknife, Canada (oh, the irony! Just wait!). The 32-year-old was going nuts trying to get at a particularly irritating itchy patch on his back -- he was thisclose to rubbing up against a big old tree -- when he finally hit jackpot! Except something felt WRONG. Like a weird lump-shaped thing. Which was also sharp. Luckily his girlfriend was there to help. Or, horrifyingly. Depending on how you look at it. (Lucratively, perhaps. But more on that in a minute.)