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Commentator Matt Miller says, he has an idea that will save Television executives from airing boring programs and serve a societal purpose. If death penalty fans consider capital punishment to be a deterrent, he says, airing executions should persuade people not to kill one another.

From member station WSHU, Tandaleya Wilder reports that private parks and beaches in Greenwich, Connecticut may soon be open to the public. Many in the upscale community, which is on the outskirts of New York City, argue that opening their beaches and parks to non-residents would be disastrous.

KERN INTERVIEWS AND PERFORMANCES CONTINUED.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next fresh air. . . our encore presentations of our American popular song series continues, with the early theatre songs of Jerome Kern, the songs he wrote before such hits as smoke gets in your eyes, and the way you look tonight. Join us for the next Fresh Air.

In the second report on the current Supreme Court, NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports on a number of decisions the Supreme Court reached this term. The justices were divided along ideological lines, with the conservative block dominating for most of the decisions. Many of the rulings though, concerned limiting federal power, striking down more federal laws than upheld. The decisions upheld tended to be earlier liberal Supreme Court rulings, such as when they reaffirmed Miranda.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow that Russian authorities are investigating several business tycoons for crimes ranging from tax evasion to embezzlements. Some see this as the beginning of a long-needed crackdown on the so-called oligarchs, moguls who have had cozy ties with the Kremlin. Other Russians worry these cases could be politically motivated.

50 years ago this month a rag tag team of soccer enthusiasts from the United States went to Brazil to participate in the World Cup Soccer Tournament. They played a very strong, very self-assured English team and won. Scott speaks about this game with Peter Chapman, reporter for the Financial Times of London and author of the new book The Goalkeeper's History of Britain. (Fourth Estate Press, UK)

Scott with some thoughts about an international panel's report asking the world not to forget the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

After months of controversy, Rome authorities will allow today's gay pride marchers to go all the way to the Coliseum. The week-long, world gay pride event had angered the Vatican. But NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that the event has triggered an unprecedented public discussion of homosexuality in the Italian media and in the streets of Rome.

Scott reads mail from listeners.