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...voice was that of Thomas E. Blanton, Jr., secretly recorded in the mid-1960s by a Ku Klux Klan buddy turned informant for the FBI, and the tapes helped convince jurors after just three hours of deliberation to convict Blanton, now 62, of the 1963 bombing that killed four young girls at the city's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church...
...await trial in prison, away from the political base that remains loyal to him and hostile to the business, religious and political elites that ousted him. He may take some solace in that the special anti-corruption court that will hear his case has a poor record of convictions on graft charges; it failed to convict former president Ferdinand Marcos, who was accused of abuses far more serious than those ascribed to Estrada...
DIED. HENRY LEE LUCAS, 64, convicted murderer who claimed in 1983 to have killed as many as 600 people; of an apparent heart attack; in a Huntsville, Texas, prison. Lucas was sentenced to death, though he later recanted his confessions. Four days before a scheduled lethal injection, he was granted clemency by then Governor George W. Bush, the only Texas convict ever so spared...
...matter, Marvin Collins, did not criticize the pardon with the same vehemence as federal prosecutors did in Clinton's case. Indeed, he called Cox a good candidate for an eventual pardon. But Collins did question the timing. The Justice Department usually waits five years after a convict finishes his sentence before recommending a pardon. At the time the pardon was given, Collins called it "premature" because the five years had not yet elapsed...
Very rarely does the Wall Street Journal get to talk about matters of the heart. So when it got the chance, the chronicler of high finance went for it with a tabloid's hunger for gossipy detail. The subject: LEONA HELMSLEY, 80. The hotelier and ex-convict had been telling confidants that she was dating her real estate empire's vice chairman, Patrick Ward, 45, and that the two were considering marriage. Apparently, she was totally unaware, until an associate told her, that Ward is gay. Ward left the company in late January but only after purchasing a 60-unit...