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Journalism students and professors from Northwestern University helped expose his innocence, and Porter was freed two days short of his execution date.
He also targets the Council's execution of annual events like Springfest--questioning the practice of spending $20,000 of a $30,000 Springfest budget on attracting a big-name band.
Not that there will be fewer sightings of Schrempp at the St. Regis. Although he is being criticized in Germany for Chrysler's woes and his risky Mitsubishi investment, he is undaunted. "I am not going to let the right strategy get derailed by faulty execution," he told TIME last...
Of the 38 states that allow the death penalty, 13 bar the execution of the mentally retarded, as does the U.S. government for federal inmates. In 1989 the Supreme Court ruled that while executing those with diminished mental capabilities does not violate the ban on cruel and unusual punishment, a...
The Supreme Court will decide in the next few weeks whether to consider Penry's appeal or send it back to the Texas courts, which would then most likely set a new execution date. The intricacacies of the controversy, however, reportedly elude Penry. Prison officials said that upon learning his...