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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Teresa? My Name's Gotti . . . | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: River Towns Take a Risky Gamble | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

This Friday, a federal court in San Francisco will decide whether KQED, a public television station in California, has the right to film the gas-chamber execution of Robert Alton Harris, a career criminal convicted of murdering two teenage boys 12 years ago. Harris will be the first inmate executed in California since voters reinstituted capital punishment in a 1978 statewide referendum...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Facing Up to Death | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Facing Up to Death | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ultimate Horror Show | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

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