Was a Missouri execution a case of “finality over fairness”?

Plus: “It’s gonna have to be a boot.” A local cobbler gets an unusual call from an English aristocrat…and finds himself making footwear for a camel.

Also: How fish and octopuses team up to catch dinner; a new study shows startling disparity in the costs charged for medical procedures on men and women; and botanists turn to extreme paramotorists to reach rare plants.