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Justices William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens dissented, calling the study proof of impermissible lingering racism in American justice. "Race casts a large shadow on the capital sentencing process," wrote Brennan. The dissenters questioned why statistical evidence, acceptable for attacking discrimination in employment or jury selection, was not acceptable in this case. They also charged that the majority was driven by other than judicial concerns -- a fear of disrupting the implementation of the criminal-justice system in Georgia and elsewhere...
Justices William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun and John Paul Stevens dissented...
...Narrowing the class of death-eligible defendants is not too high a price to pay for a death penalty system that does not discriminate on the basis of race," Brennan wrote for the four dissenters...
...start of the Bullet LaVolta. After the delicate sound of the Blake Babies, the decibel sound of Bullet hit you like a well-aimed right from Mike Tyson. Bullet LaVolta's strength comes from duelling guitars of Adams House junior Clay Tarver and Adams House Classics Tutor Corey Brennan: Tarver favors straight-forward riffs while Brennan produces lightning-quick metal solos. The result is a combination of licks reminiscent of the best MC5 or Cream and the manual dexterity of modern metal...
...negotiations continued through Thursday. Between meetings with Pennzoil, DeCrane and Kinnear were huddling with their team of advisers, including Boies, Investment Banker Donald Brennan of Morgan Stanley, and Gibson Gayle, a lawyer with the Houston firm of Fulbright & Jaworski. Several members of Texaco's board of directors hastily flew to Houston, among them Robert Beck, former chairman of Prudential Insurance, and Frank Cary, former IBM chairman. Other directors, including Thomas Murphy, chairman of Capital Cities/ABC, went to Texaco's White Plains headquarters to join the talks via conference calls. All week long board members debated whether or not the company...