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...electric chair. He admits such sentences negate the notion of rehabilitation (which he still believes is possible, "even in prison"), but stopping the death penalty is Cuomo's overriding priority. And if the New York legislature, which is said to be only a vote shy in each chamber, finally overrides his veto? Then, says Cuomo, he will follow the law and sign whatever death warrants come his way. To commute all sentences blindly, he realizes, would be "the height of arrogance. I would never impose my personal views over...
They are getting the gas chamber at San Quentin ready again. It has been 23 years since an inmate was put to death in the prison that overlooks San Francisco Bay. Now eight volunteers from among the guards are rehearsing mock executions. Inspectors are checking the plumbing to ensure that the systems are working smoothly. If all goes as planned, the airtight steel door of the green chamber will open on April 3 to admit Robert Alton Harris, 37, then close behind...
...brutality alone of Harris' crime would make him notorious. A conjunction of place and time has made him something more: a symbol of the future for the nation's more than 2,200 death-row inmates. If Harris goes to the gas chamber, California will join the relatively short list of states that have carried out executions since the Supreme Court declared the death penalty constitutional in 1976. And it will do so at the very moment that the death penalty has become a hot campaign issue around the U.S. "There is almost a mob attitude in California, a frenzy...
...format allows Roth to play to his strengths of critical intelligence and pitch-perfect ear. Few writers can touch him when it comes to the illusion of natural dialogue or the comic possibilities latent in high- mindedness. Deception is not a full orchestration of Roth's abilities but a chamber version. Stripped of narrative, the voices are free to play off each other. They may also offer the most delicious deception of all. Could this skeletal novel be just loosely stitched exercises from Roth's notebooks? Mirrors, mirrors on the wall, who's the falsest of them...
Woman power in San Diego extends beyond this golden triumvirate. Four of the nine city council seats are occupied by women. So are the presidencies or chairs of the school board, the chamber of commerce, the Centre City Development Corp., both the Republican and Democratic county committees and the deputy mayor's post. Their rise, say these women, has been surprisingly unchallenged...