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Tremendous pressure was also building on Paulding. Sister Helen Prejean, the anti-death-penalty crusader and author of Dead Man Walking, called the devout Catholic attorney on the phone. Prejean says the conversation was blunt: "'T.R.,' I told him, 'you are the one movable part of this machinery of death.'" Eventually, a judge made an extraordinary threat to take away Paulding's law license if any new evidence about Ross's competence emerged after he had been executed. An hour from death, Ross backed down--in order to save his lawyer's neck, he says. The aborted execution cost...
Twelve years and nine months ago, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, a devout Catholic and one of the most successful liberal governors of the twentieth century, was refused a speaking slot at the 1992 Democratic convention because of his anti-choice views—or so the story goes. Ergo: national Democrats, rather than Giuliani and Schwarzenegger-embracing Republicans, are the real exclusionists on abortion. Ergo: that’s why Democrats can?...
...fifth. Along the way, they have made a number of arguments, and all were rejected: that because of his relationship and two children with another woman, Michael should be removed as guardian--although, according to court documents, the Schindlers originally encouraged him to see other women; that as a devout Catholic, Terri would want to live--although they have also acknowledged in court that they might have disregarded her wish to die even if stated in a living will; that Michael was abusing Terri, charges he has vehemently denied; and that her condition has been misdiagnosed, that she actually...
...begin to head over to Schiavo's hospice, but local police at the scene made it clear that they would not allow them in without an order from Judge Greer, who had previously enjoined the state from taking such a drastic action. In the end, Governor Bush, a devout Catholic who scored valuable points with the religious right with his dogged work on the case, reluctantly admitted that "my powers are not as expansive as people would want them...
...attack left her unable to care for herself. Since then, Schiavo’s husband, her legal guardian, has campaigned to have her feeding tube removed, claiming that Schiavo had previously told him that she would not want to be kept alive by artificial means. Her parents, who are devout Catholics, refuse to give up hope that their daughter can be rehabilitated, and they have been fighting to have the feeding tube re-inserted...