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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...
...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...
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...
...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...