hiphopmusic.com:

Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, and I wouldn't post if it was only TMZ saying so, but Miss Info has also confirmed it is true:

Rapper Pimp C Found Dead in Hollywood Hotel Room
tmz

Pimp C, real name Chad Butler -- and one half of the rap duo UGK, was found dead in a hotel room this morning. He was 33.

L.A. County Fire responded to a 911 call at the Mondrian Hotel, located on trendy Sunset Strip in Hollywood. They arrived to his sixth floor hotel room to find him dead in bed...

Tell us what you do when that little voice gets in your head.

TalkLeft links up a new policy paper (pdf) from the Justice Project on jailhouse informants, AKA what the word "snitches" used to mean back when the word sort of made sense, kind of.

Jailhouse Snitch Testimony, A Policy Review

...The use of jailhouse snitch testimony has been widely used throughout the American criminal justice system. Unfortunately jailhouse snitches are often utilized by prosecutors despite their testimony being widely regarded as the least reliable form of evidence in the criminal justice system. A 2005 study of 111 death row exonerees found that 51 were wrongly sentenced to death in part due to testimony of witnesses with incentive to lie...