LIAM NEESON walks slowly into the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills like a man who is in something of a fog.

A Georgia man has become the first inmate put to death since the US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of executions by lethal injection.

Barring a last-minute intervention by the courts, a man in the state of Georgia who killed his girlfriend is likely to become the first inmate put to death since a US Supreme Court review halted executions last September.

Civil rights campaigner Rev Jesse Jackson has called for a boycott of the latest Seinfeld DVD box set in the wake of Michael Richard's racist rant at a comedy club on 17 November.