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CLEARING THE LEGAL OBSTACLES BLOCKING THE WAY to the execution chamber has been one of the top priorities of the current U.S. Supreme Court. In its latest move to end sometimes seemingly endless death-row litigation, the court ruled 6 to 3 that a convict who offers last-minute evidence of innocence, after already exhausting appeals, has no automatic right to a federal hearing before being executed...
...look at the person sitting next to you and realize he looks very much like the escaped convict with bad breath you read about in the morning paper. You look down, and you remember you are afraid of heights...
...first and most famous Mafia turncoat, Tommaso Buscetta, was brought back to Italy from the U.S.,where he has lived since his testimony in the 1986-87 "maxi-trial" helped convict 338 mafiosi. Buscetta told the national Anti- Mafia Commission what many Italians have long suspected: that the Cosa Nostra controls many of the country's politicians. He claimed that the current campaign of arrests had decimated the Mafia and persuaded many to break the code of silence known as omerta. National police chief Vincenzo Parisi promised that squealers will get a new home -- outside Italy...
Juries acquit defendants whose culpability is so clear that their own lawyers later admit they were almost certain of a guilty verdict. A 100 percent track record may be unrealistic, but courts must do better to convict those who clearly commit unlawful acts. It is the current inequitable process of jury selection that is largely to blame...
David Travis demonstrates amazing range as Todd, the ex-convict barber who seeks revenge on the men who destroyed his life. Travis manages to show Todd's intensity without letting the character slip into melodrama. Travis portrays Todd's inhumanely violent nature yet also his sincere despair over the loss of his wife and daughter. Travis' many musical numbers show off his terrific voice and his acting at its best. Like most of the cast he seems underdirected in straight dialogue scenes--particularly in the first...