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...build a $1 billion commercial and industrial park in suburban Chicago because the company could not obtain a loan. Even developers in Southern California have been feeling the pinch. "Unless you have a couple of lead tenants signed up," says Jack Kyser, chief economist of the Los Angeles area Chamber of Commerce, "lenders don't want to talk...
...Winthrop Rockefeller in 1971 and New Mexico's Toney Anaya in 1986 could afford the moral luxury of commuting the sentences of everyone on death row. Former California Governor Edmund (Pat) Brown wrote a 1989 book reliving his clemency deliberations, in which he saved 23 men from the gas chamber and spurned appeals from 36 others, including Caryl Chessman, whose 1960 execution sparked major protests. "The longer I live," declared Brown, now 85, "the larger loom those 59 decisions about justice and mercy...
...inmates at the state prison in Huntsville. With Mattox and Richards set to face each other again in a runoff election in April, the issue is sure to loom large. "Maybe the next step will be scratch-and-sniff ads, so voters can sample the smell of the death chamber," complains Richards' campaign spokesman Mark McKinnon...
...proclaiming her approval of both abortion rights and capital punishment. Almost overnight, she rocketed up 19 points in the polls, grabbing the lead from Van de Kamp, an opponent of capital punishment. Now Van de Kamp has unveiled his own TV spot, complete with footage of the gas chamber, in which he boasts of how many prisoners he has dispatched to death row as attorney general...
...Harris, such controversies may soon be moot. Unless some unexpected hitch develops, at about 2:45 a.m. on April 3, the execution squad will escort Harris, wearing a new pair of jeans and a denim work shirt, into the gas chamber and strap him into one of the two seats. Fifteen minutes later, the chamber will fill with cyanide gas. Harris will inhale, slump over and, within minutes...