shannon: officials in arkansas monitoring an incident in the town of russellville. this was an industrial accident at the nuclear one plant. health says itof heck says it happened in a nonradiation area and there is no risk to the public health and safety. shannon: every year thousand is of cases are appealed to the supreme court and though only a tiny fran fraction are heard eh has a fascinating back story. that new book titled murder at the supreme court takes a look at historic death penalty cases the justices have wrestled with. i sat down with the coauthors to ask them how they came up with the idea for the book in the first place. we decided 20 years ago we wanted to write a book about supreme court cases. we didn t know what kind of a book. it took us awhile to figure it out. probably the same format. we would look at the cases that