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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Could there be a link between Thursday's bombing of an Alabama abortion clinic, which killed an off-duty policeman, and previous similar attacks in nearby Atlanta ? including the Olympic Park bombing? TIME's Atlanta correspondent, Sylvester Monroe, reports that while there is a "psychological connection," it is still too early to draw any firm parallels. The bombs used in the two Atlanta attacks were pipe bombs packed with nails, and their resemblance could possibly indicate a single perpetrator. There is still no word from the FBI or ATF on the type of device used in Birmingham...
...argue that children mature enough to murder are mature enough to be punished for it. "I think when my kids were 15 or 16 they knew better than to kill someone," says Miriam Shehane, president of Victims of Crime and Leniency (VOCAL), a victims'-rights group based in Montgomery, Ala. "If someone does adult crime, they are acting as adults, and they have to take responsibility." Shehane contends that capital punishment is not only for those with long legacies of criminality but also for anyone, teens included, who commits singularly horrific crimes...
...didn't the D.A.'s office share Babin's seemingly indecisive original statement with the defense? Berry says the prosecution had no legal obligation to share the statement. But Bryan Stevenson, head of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., says prosecutors do, in fact, have a legal obligation to share with the defense exculpatory evidence--and in capital cases mitigating evidence, as well. Says Stevenson: "The obligation of the prosecution is to accomplish justice, not just get a conviction...
...describe an event that returns to me in memory from the past. On a visit to the South many years ago, I found myself carrying it with me somewhere between the past and the present. I thought of it a great deal. It occurred in 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., at an allday meeting at Martin Luther King's church, the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Reverend King had just come to public notice. We had heard about him in Talladega County where I was attending college and, curious about him, decided to drive to Montgomery...
...limelight. Federal Judge James Ware often told the moving tale of how his younger brother Virgil was gunned down by two white teenagers right before his eyes, an event that occurred on the day in 1963 that four black girls were killed when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Ala. He called the death a defining experience that made him "hungry for justice." Last month he withdrew his nomination to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Virgil Ware was killed all right, but he was no relation to the judge...