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...high court announced that it had agreed to hear arguments in Baze v. Rees to determine whether Kentucky's use of lethal injections (the same method Texas uses) violated constitutional proscriptions against cruel and unusual punishment. Richard's attorneys with the Texas Defender Service hoped to use the Baze case to win a delay, but they would have to go through the CCA in Austin first before approaching the Supreme Court for a stay and, as the execution was looming, they would have to act quickly. Frantically trying to assemble their paperwork - at the time, the CCA did not permit...
...What was striking about the case, Baze v. Rees, was that after 36 years of extensive litigation over capital punishment, the Court is as scattered as ever. A case in which none of the justices ultimately found much merit nevertheless provoked seven separate opinions, controlled by a weak three-judge plurality...
...harshly accused them of jacking up prices and making extortionate profits from the energy crisis. The oilmen argued that the high earnings were for only one year, came after several years of modest profits, and were largely from big sales overseas. At one point, Exxon Vice President Roy A. Baze could not recall the size of his company's 1972 dividends. Jackson angrily threatened "to start slapping subpoenas on some of you," and then telephoned a stockbroker and announced that the dividends had been $3.80 a share...
...Senate hearings into oil company profits last month, Exxon Vice President Roy Baze was publicly humiliated by Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington. Baze, an expert on moving and storing oil, expected to be questioned about supplies, but Jackson asked him instead what Exxon's per-share dividends were. Baze did not know, and Jackson made a grandstand show of phoning a Washington stockbroker for the information. Last week an overwrought writer of a letter to the New York Times accused Exxon of "treason" for not supplying the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean during the Middle East
Nothing the oil executives have said or done has softened the hostility on Capitol Hill and the Senate hearing produced many sharp clashes. Jackson, who is campaigning hard for the Democratic presidential nomination, took advantage of the inept performance of Exxon Vice President Roy A. Baze. When Baze could not recall the size of Exxon's 1972 dividends, Jackson snapped: "I guess we're going to have to start slapping subpoenas on some of you." Then, in a grandstand play, Jackson phoned a stockbroker and announced that the dividend was $3.80 a share...