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After years of unsuccessful schemes to end his appeals, Ross finally fired his public defenders and, in 2004, hired T.R. Paulding Jr., a lawyer with little capital-case experience who promised to help Ross die. Together, they nearly succeeded. On Oct. 6, with no defense attorneys opposing Ross's execution...
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...
Time and again, volunteers have jump-started dormant death houses. Gary Gilmore, whose 1977 execution rang in the modern capital-punishment era, was a volunteer. So was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the first federal prisoner executed since 1963. Death-row inmates often recognize what's at stake. In Ohio...
It is unclear whether Ross's execution would have that quickening effect. The last New England execution took place in 1960. A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed that although 70% of Connecticut respondents want Ross executed, in general just 37% favor the death penalty over life without parole. Being the...
PLED GUILTY. ERIC RUDOLPH, 38, to the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta Olympics and attacks on abortion clinics and a gay club in Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama, which in total killed two people and injured 150; as part of a deal to serve four life sentences instead of face execution...