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Those opposed to the death penalty saw a door open in Alabama, and they tried desperately to stick their collective foot in it. But on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court slammed the door in their faces by refusing to hear the case of death row inmate Robert Lee Tarver, whose February 3 electrocution was suspended when his lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that death by electric chair, Alabama's sole mode of execution, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. In addition to saving Tarver and others facing electrocution, anti-death penalty activists had been hoping that if the Court...
...admit the truth to her family now, not after concealing her pregnancy for so long. She could have tossed the wide-eyed, curly-haired boy into Mobile Bay or buried him in the woods at the edge of town. But instead, on a cold Christmas Eve night in Alabama, she stood in the emergency room at Springhill Memorial Hospital, looking around until her eyes locked on supervisor Teri Little. Her voice hollow, she asked, "Is this where I drop my baby...
...harm them. "We're just trying to prevent a desperate situation," Tyson says. "If you could have a healthy, bouncing baby as opposed to a dead infant, which one would you choose?" Indeed, after a spate of tragic "Dumpster baby" stories in the media, states from Alabama to California are choosing to debate and institute regulations that would allow women to "safely" abandon unwanted newborns...
...serious long-distance relationship with a 28-year-old man who lived in Alabama. With her relationship looming so large in her life, Lehmann says she could never feel like part of life in the Yard...
...carried out disproportionately against minorities. And while Robert Tarver wasn't arguing against his death sentence per se, TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders points out that the ensuing legal maneuvers will probably grant Tarver quite a lengthy reprieve. "Tarver argued that he couldn't legally be electrocuted, and in Alabama, that means he can't be executed. Any judicial review will take months, if not years, to wrap up," says Sanders. The Court was poised several months ago to examine a similar case in Florida, until the state rendered the arguments moot by replacing electrocution with the more popular...