Word: drunks
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Aside from public defenders, there are only about a dozen attorneys working full time on behalf of the condemned. Court-appointed lawyers in most states are not required to stay on a murderer's case after a conviction. "Drunk lawyers, lazy lawyers, incompetent lawyers, no lawyers," says Holdman. "You can have all the correct issues for appeal, but if you don't have a good lawyer to raise them, they don't mean a damn thing." Of 2,000 death sentences imposed during the post-Furman decade, about half have been reversed or vacated by the courts...
...just sitting there waiting for somebody to come kill you," says Rutledge of his purgatory, "just like a dog out there in the dog pound." But he does not claim innocence. No: he did kill a man two days before Christmas 1980. Rutledge was doped up and drunk with two friends. One pal brought along a gun, and with it they took off on a joyride in the van of a driver they had robbed of $20 and stashed in the back. It was decided that the victim, Gable Holloway, 28, should die. He begged for his life. But Rutledge...
...work at all, deterrence requires murderers to reckon at least roughly the probable costs of their actions. But if a killer is drunk or high on drugs, that kind of rational assessment might be impossible. Passions are often at play that make a cost-benefit analysis unlikely. Most killers are probably not lucid thinkers at their best. Henry Brisbon Jr. (see box) may be legally sane, but he is by ordinary standards demented enough to make a mess of any theory of deterrence. Says New York University Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam: "People who ask themselves those questions...
...Mills demonstrates how Mailer's attempt "to make a revolution in the consciousness of our time" was exercised not only in his writing but also through his personal, uninhibited, impulsive actions. There is no dearth of colorful detail--she records brawls at the Village Gate in New York City, drunk speeches at his 50th birthday party and belligerent comments on talk shows and interviews...
...Denver reporters dug into the incident, questions arose last week about Key's fitness to fly and her station management's judgment. Roger Ogden, KOA-TV general manager, admitted that the station hired Key knowing that she had been arrested for driving drunk last year. Further, it turned out, she had exaggerated her experience as a pilot, and the station had not uncovered that fact. Insisted Ogden: "Her flying was never cause for concern." But while some Denver pilots termed Key cautious, fellow reporters said they were uneasy flying with her. The windy Rockies near Denver are known...