staff and news service reports updated 9/23/2010 12:16:06 PM ET
2010-09-23T16:16:06  Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said Thursday
that he regrets telling a group of college students he would
"slowly torture" three suspects accused of robbing and killing a
pizza delivery driver.  The Boston Globe reported that Menino
was talking to Emerson College students last week when an
audience member asked about a death penalty punishment for the
suspects in the Sept. 2 stabbing death of 58-year-old Richel
Nova. Nova's daughters worked in Menino's City Hall office, the
report said.  On an audio recording made by a student, the
Democratic mayor first explained why he thought the death
penalty was unfair, The Globe report said. But then he veered
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