Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poster boy for capital punishment--perhaps the most effective since Ted Bundy--McVeigh is causing so much discussion that "it's as if we have not had a death penalty until now," says Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, a nonprofit organization that represents capital defendants. Foes of the death penalty find this troubling, since McVeigh's case is so unusual, but they should be grateful to him for reopening a debate that was essentially over in America. Three-quarters of the public--along with the Congress, the President and the courts--is solidly in favor...
...Alabama, 69% of those executed since 1976 were black. In Georgia the figure is 55%. Even though blacks are more likely than whites to be the victim of homicide, the overwhelming majority of capital cases involve crimes committed against people who are white. The disparity was attacked in a landmark 1987 case, McClesky v. Kemp. Warren McClesky, a black man convicted of killing a white police officer in Georgia, based his appeal on a study that showed killers of white people were four times as likely to get the death penalty as killers of nonwhites. That wasn't enough...
...scare early on saw sophomore Ivy Wang fall in a three-set thriller (2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) to Bali Camino and Rosemary She--in the No. 2 singles position--lose to Dominique Glinzer, 7-5, 6-2. Gina Majmudar also fell victim to the Alabama attack, leaving the fate of both the match and the Crimson season in the hands in the final two singles spots...
...Alabama match was the toughest for us. It was the most heart we put into a match," Majmudar said...
...With Alabama behind it, the Crimson could finally concentrate on the Tribe, which had cruised through its two earlier rounds, 5-0. One of those impressive routs involved Ivy champion Brown, which had defeated Harvard just two weeks before take the Ivy title...