Word: alabamas
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...form of the death penalty more cruel and unusual than another? That's what the U.S. Supreme Court will have to decide when they hear arguments in the case of Alabama death row inmate Robert Lee Tarver. Convicted of robbery and murder in 1984, Tarver was hours from death when the Justices issued a stay of execution and agreed to consider the inmate's claim that Alabama's primary mode of execution - the electric chair - violates his Eighth Amendment rights, which protect him against cruel and unusual punishment. Alabama, Nebraska and Georgia are the only remaining states...
...There are times when I think I can't wait to go back to Alabama and get away from this craziness," Barkley says. "And then there are times when you think, 'This makes sense, but we wouldn't do that in the South, would...
Gattman says his guidance counselor encouraged him to stick close to Alabama in his choice of schools. Even after he got into Harvard, she told him to apply in-state to keep his options open...
Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Thornton Dial, a grade-school dropout, says he has been "making stuff" all his life. As a child, he assembled toys out of odds and ends, and as he grew older, he continued to tinker with scraps of this and that in his spare time when he wasn't working as a carpenter, house painter, cement mixer and ironworker. But it was only in 1980, when he found himself unemployed at age 52, that he began to pour all his time and accumulated skill and experience into his creations: powerful depictions of human relationships...
...Alabama public schools named after turn-of-the-century assimilationist and fellow Alabamian Booker T. Washington...