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Dubbed the Queen of Death Row by one appreciative convict, Morris, 49, a mother of four and a staunch opponent of capital punishment, is death penalty coordinator for the Georgia affiliate of the A.C.L.U. She normally does not start hunting for lawyers until after the defendant has been convicted and...
Persuading capable lawyers to go along on so lengthy a legal journey-an "exhausting, self-lacerating investment of time and energy," as the A.C.L.U.'S Henry Schwarzschild describes it-is no easy task. "It's so desperate you take whom you can get," explains Morris. Indeed, the shortage...
Morris shares the limelight in the Georgia death penalty struggle with Millard Farmer, 45, who heads Team Defense, a money-starved Atlanta organization that represents about 10% of the state's death row prisoners. As his three criminal contempt citations indicate, Farmer pulls no punches in the courtroom. Once...
Less flamboyant than Farmer, Morris is no less intense. Before her 8:15 a.m. arrival at her Atlanta office, she puts in an hour on the telephone at home; most weeks she works six days. Her commitment to the struggle against capital punishment is a natural outgrowth of years spent...
The dramatic news broke in an offhand manner. After a routine conference at the Vatican last Tuesday, Press Officer Romeo Panciroli stood to read what was expected to be some minor announcement. Instead, he intoned that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith "is constrained to declare that Professor...