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...George Bush understood America's gullibility around the issue of race. You think Dan Quayle was Bush's running mate? It was Willie Horton," Stith said referring to a much-publicized ad campaign focusing on a Black convict who raped a white woman while on furlough from prison...
...golden writer and the convict brother could come from the same Pittsburgh family was the burden of Wideman's nonfictional Brothers and Keepers (1984). The theme of the lost son pervades Philadelphia Fire, a novel that, like the earlier book, pits the author's refined literary sensibility against the crudity and violence of racism around...
...before he was to die in Georgia's electric chair, the born-again convict won a stay of execution and a commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment. Joining the model prisoner's campaign for clemency were some of the relatives of the man he confessed to killing...
...second mistrial for Buckey, whose mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, had been acquitted of similar charges in January after the longest trial in U.S. history. That jury had been unable to reach a decision on all the counts against Raymond. Prosecutors then made their second attempt to convict him, this time on charges of molesting three of the children, girls who are now ages 11 to 13. Buckey spent five years in prison awaiting his day in court. The bill to taxpayers for the disastrous case: $13.5 million...
Several Massachusetts legal experts believe the Twitchells' claim of a statutory exemption will prevail on appeal. Says Harvey Silverglate of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers: "It's virtually impossible to convict the parents in the face of that exemption." Silverglate and others think the Twitchell conviction -- particularly if it is overturned -- could ultimately prompt nationwide efforts to repeal legal exemptions for spiritual healing. While that would be a tremendous blow to the Christian Scientists and other religious groups, it would, say child-advocacy groups, be an important step toward granting the nation's children a fundamental human right...