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Would that the United States legal system abided by this standard of humanity and decency. On Monday, the Supreme Court refused a stay of execution for Jesse Dewayne Jacobs, a Texan who did not commit the murder of Etta Urdiales, for which he was tried and convicted in 1987. On Wednesday of this week, Jacobs was executed...
...high or the low point of the Pope's year, depending on who did the reporting, came in September. The U.N. population conference convened in Cairo, with representatives from 185 nations and the Holy See in attendance. On the table was a 113-page plan calling on governments to commit $17 billion annually by the year 2000 to curb global population growth. About 90% of the draft document had been approved in advance by the participants, but the remaining 10% contained some bombshells John Paul had seen coming. The most explosive was Paragraph 8.25, which owed its inclusion in part...
Alternative rockers are notoriously mopey, but Love's husband Kurt Cobain took the attitude to a tragic extreme and killed himself with a shotgun. Months later, Love revealed the couple's horrifying original plan: to commit a double suicide following the birth of their daughter...
...some places the small group homes that absorbed the most troubled kids were themselves rife with drugs, violence and sexual abuse. Recalls 19-year-old Kenyetta Ivy, a survivor of nine New York group homes: "There were rats in the stove. I know some girls who tried to commit suicide, and the staff wouldn't even check on them." A traumatized child-care community launched the debate that continues today. Some championed earlier and more extended placement of damaged children in residential treatment, maintaining that institutional permanency was far preferable to a nightmare sequence of foster-care failure after foster...
...Florida, are part of a mammoth chain based in Innsbruck, Austria. Founded in 1949 for war orphans, SOS- Kinderdorf International, now established in 124 countries, cares for a total of 180,000 children. In each "village," the concept is the same: long- term residency and house mothers who commit to 20 years with the project...