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Indeed, while the execution has proved difficult, the idea is very simple. Tumors, like any other cells, need oxygen and nutrients to survive. At first they eat their way through healthy tissue, looking for blood vessels to tap for these essentials. Eventually, though, they start to grow their own capillaries...
Maybe he's better off that way. If he were given to emoting, the Attorney General might be sounding low, if only because his 15 weeks in office have seen two colossal FBI embarrassments: the revelation that accused Russian spy Robert Hanssen operated inside the bureau for 15 years; and...
"We had a sense that they felt better about the first execution being Tim McVeigh rather than someone who raises systemic issues about the application of the federal death penalty," said Bruce W. Gilchrist, one of Garza's lawyers. "McVeigh is less likely to be a lightning rod."
During his confirmation hearings, Ashcroft, a death penalty supporter, noted that "the fair, just and sure administration of the federal death penalty requires that it be applied completely free of racial bias." Does that mean Garza's execution, too, might be postponed?
"We're aware of his execution date," said DOJ spokesman Susan Dryden. "We're keenly aware of that and of the concerns there."