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Two years ago Saturday, at age 50, Michael Jackson died suddenly from an overdose of the powerful sedative Propofol. His personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, faces manslaughter charges. The trail gets under way in September. What’s taking so long? “Justice grinds slowly in America, and especially in Hollywood when there’s a celebrity attached,” says Diane Dimond, author of “Be Careful Who You Love” and a Daily Beast contributor. “The state took a long time to try to find a number of medical experts who were willing to talk about Propofol, its use and misuse, that wanted to be involved in a high-celebrity case like this. They didn’t want National Enquirer reporters in their lobby, so it took them quite a while to get up the medical experts they thought was necessary. The judge finally said, ‘Let’s postpone this until everybody really gets ready.”‘ Photos: Michael Jackson 1958-2009Jackson Memorial highlightsCBS News videos of Michael JacksonCoverage from one year anniversary of Jackson’s death Dimond told “Early Show on Saturday Morning” co-anchor Russ Mitchell she thinks Murray has been “kind of struggling to figure out how to pay his bills. He not only has a wife and a home in Las Vegas, but he also has some other children and other families that he needs to take care of.” Jackson biographer and CBS News consultant J. Randy Taraborrelli told correspondent Priya David-Clemens,...

(AP) MEXICO CITY – Mexican officials say they have struck a major blow against a faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel, arresting one of the country’s most-wanted drug traffickers, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as “El Taliban,” and placing him on display in a Thursday morning press conference. Velazquez Caballero allegedly has been fighting a bloody internal battle with top Zetas’ leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, and officials have said the split was behind a recent surge in massacres and shootouts, particularly in northern Mexico. Masked marines displayed the burly, handcuffed suspect alongside two alleged accomplices and a table of guns and other contraband seized during his arrest. Velazquez Caballero is the third alleged cartel leader to be taken into custody this month. All are accused of leading factions of the Gulf Cartel or Zetas, former allies now feuding over valuable smuggling territory along the U.S. border. The alleged heads of the two main factions of the Gulf group, Mario Cardenas Guillen and Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez, were also seized in Navy operations in northern Mexico. In the waning months of President Felipe Calderon’s presidency, the arrests add to the list of cartel figures taken out of action as part of his U.S.-backed strategy of removing the leadership of drug-smuggling organizations. Calderon and the Obama administration say the strategy is working, but many independent groups say it has helped fuel...

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(AP) TOKYO – Japan executed two people Thursday, 먹튀 없는 토토 including a 65-year old female cult leader convicted of six murders that took place during supposed exorcisms. The Justice Ministry said 65-year-old Sachiko Eto and 39-year-old Yukinori Matsuda were executed by hanging. Matsuda was convicted of killing two people during a robbery in 2003. Eto turned to faith healing after she and her husband joined a cult, according to Japanese media reports. She and two accomplices, including her daughter, were convicted of beating their victims to drive out “demons” and then hiding their bodies at her home. Japan cult guru Shoko Asahara sentenced to hangJapan cult member connected to subway attack sentenced to death During her trial, Eto’s lawyers argued she had diminished responsibility as she was suffering mental problems at the time of the crimes. She pled not guilty, but a Japanese court upheld her sentence, ruling that her crimes were “excessively grave.” Eto’s daughter and another cult member were sentenced to life in prison for the 1995 murders. Japan is one of the few industrialized countries that have capital punishment. The lack of transparency in the system has been criticized by human rights groups, but capital punishment is generally supported by the public, according to opinion polls. Japan had no executions in 2011 but has conducted seven this year. The Justice Ministry says 131 convicts are...