Word: alton
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...HARD TO FIND A better reference than Mother Teresa, who has issued clemency appeals on behalf of both S&L swindler Charles Keating and murderer Robert Alton Harris. In a letter to Keating's trial judge, Mother Teresa noted that the financier had donated $1 million to fight hunger, and she has publicized her objection to the death penalty in Harris' case. But even a "living saint" can't help lost causes: Keating drew 10 years in prison; Harris is to be executed this week...
...LAST TIME A PRISONER DIED IN SAN QUENTIN'S gas chamber, Ronald Reagan was Governor of California. But Governor Pete Wilson's rejection of an appeal for clemency by Robert Alton Harris may end the long hiatus. Harris, 39, was convicted in 1979 of shooting two San Diego teenagers to death. Prosecutors told the jury that Harris taunted the victims before they died, laughed at them after he pulled the trigger, then calmly ate the hamburgers they had bought for lunch. Said Wilson: "The decision of the jury was correct...
...Illinois has approved 10 riverboat gambling licenses, good for two vessels each. The first boat could cruise from Alton this summer. Unlike Iowa, where passengers are limited by law to $200 in losses per cruise, those in Illinois will be able to place unlimited bets...
...cruel. Alberto Grella beat me up every day in the schoolyard when I was in second grade. And I've got to admit that part of me still wants to rip him to shreds. I don't think that the cruel side of my character would emerge as Robert Alton Harris paid the price for his sins. But it might...
...voice-over is easy to script. "Robert Alton Harris was executed yesterday at San Quentin prison. He was the first California prisoner in 24 years to be put to death...