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Poor Thomas Capano. On the same day last week on which Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, under pressure from the Pope, decided to commute the sentence of a convicted killer from death to life in prison, a jury voted to send Capano--a convicted killer in his own right--to Delaware's death...
...Capano jury's recommendation, coming on the same day as the pope's unusual appeal for clemency, threw into stark light the difficulty death penalty opponents face in convincing the rest of the nation to end the relatively barbaric practice...
...expected Capano's admission on the witness stand that he disposed of Fahey's body by stuffing it into a 3-ft. Styrofoam cooler, and then, with the help of his brother, dumped it at sea. (The cooler was later found by fishermen.) Neither did anyone expect him to point the finger at another ex-mistress, Deborah MacIntyre, who, he says, "accidentally" shot Fahey as Capano tried to wrest a gun from her--an action he claims he later covered up by getting rid of the body, which has never been found. MacIntyre denies the entire story...
...foresaw that Capano's brothers Louis, 47, and Gerard, 36, squeezed by prosecutors and threatened with jail time, would turn on Capano in court and testify that he recruited them in the cover-up of the case. The latest twist: last week Capano's only sister Marian and her husband, local lawyer Lee Ramunno, each mounted the witness stand to defend brother Thomas and attack the credibility and honesty of brothers Louis and Gerard...
...then, of course, there's the sex. The case, which is expected to go to the jury after closing arguments early this week, has been punctuated with such bizarre and graphic accounts of Capano's sexual activities that at times the local newspapers have chosen not to publish some of the testimony. Some in the courtroom refer to the defendant as the "man with the Velcro fly." At one point a mortified Delaware deputy attorney general was forced to testify that he had had a "threesome" with Capano and MacIntyre. Capano, he said, watched through a window while...