Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burnouts better suited to traffic court--or, in their appeal stage, by no one at all. And where the case against McVeigh seems gold-plated, other defendants are sentenced to death on the basis of flimsy evidence, jury whim, prosecutorial misconduct or the luck of the draw. Stephen Bright, director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, says that in three capital cases in Houston recently defense lawyers were observed to be sleeping during the trial. All three convictions were upheld on appeal, and one of the defendants has been executed...
McVeigh's case is just so clean. "The danger is [when] somebody says, 'If ever there was a case for the death penalty, this is the case,'" says Bright. "The problem is that we never limit it to that case. We have more than 3,000 people on death row, many without lawyers, and the overwhelming majority are not the Timothy McVeighs or Ted Bundys or John Wayne Gacys." Simply put, the most powerful argument against the death penalty is that it is dispensed by a justice system that favors some defendants over others. In February, the American Bar Association...
...death has become a part of life. That is especially true in Texas, which has had 127 executions since 1976, almost a third of the national total. Today 448 people wait on death row in Texas. "If they keep going at the rate they're going," says Stephen Bright, "it won't be long before Texas will have executed more people than all the rest of the states put together. They execute so many people that nobody pays any attention...
...convict a black man accused of killing a white police officer. Hays and a friend snatched 19-year-old Michael Donald off a Mobile street, then beat, cut, strangled and strung him up. Sixteen years later, with Donald's older brother Stanley watching intently, Hays was strapped into the bright yellow chair inside Holman Prison in Atmore, Ala. Asked for his last words, a repentant Hays mouthed "I love you" to Stanley Donald, made a thumbs-up sign and died when the first high-voltage cycle slammed into his brain...
...result, Flaming Pie is a relaxed, easygoing album; the songs sail blithely along, like boats on a lake on a bright, breezy day. The knock on McCartney's solo work has always been that it is overly sweet; too much light, not enough illumination. Now that McCartney is 54, however, age has brought to his work a welcome melancholy; there's a streak of gray in his golden voice. The Song We Were Singing, a gentle number looking back at the psychedelic bull sessions of the 1960s, has a jaunty feel but also a wistful one; Heaven on a Sunday...