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...March 20, a man named Keith Clay died in Texas. His death was largely unremarkable except for one thing: he was the 300th person executed in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorized capital punishment in 1976. One need not ignore the savagery of his crimes--prosecutors said Clay stood by while a friend murdered a father and his two kids on Christmas Eve 1993, 11 days before Clay himself butchered a store clerk--to pause at his execution...
...approach of the 300th execution happened to coincide with a period of intense scrutiny of capital punishment. In January the departing Republican Governor of Illinois, George Ryan, delivered the biggest blow when he commuted the sentences of all 167 people who were to be executed in his state. "Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error," Ryan declared, "error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die." He and others argue that problems like racially motivated prosecutions, coerced confessions and unreliable witnesses have made the system capricious. Such worries may help explain...
...official Philly tourist brochure, and he has performed for every President since Gerald Ford. He makes a handsome living by delivering several lectures a week to business conventions. When the city wanted to cut his funding for his free daily children's programs--just three years before Franklin's 300th birthday--Archbold knocked on some corporate and government doors and got the cash. It's hard to say no to someone willing to dress up as a Founding Father in public...
Though he delivered the speech in Tercentenary Theater nearly 15 years ago, the recollection still makes Bok—who now serves as the 300th Anniversary University Professor—chuckle...
Having first premiered in May of last year, delivered as a gift for the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg, Russian Ark made its American debut in early February; critical awe—from Robert Ebert to the Village Voice (in which it appeared on five of six critics’ top-ten lists for 2002)—has followed wherever it goes. It makes its Cambridge debut on Friday at the Brattle Theatre...