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You can learn a lot about candidates who must preside over an execution while campaigning for the presidency. Voters got a snapshot of Bill Clinton when he interrupted his New Hampshire stumping to fly back to Little Rock, Ark., in 1992 and oversee the death of a brain-damaged prisoner...
George W. Bush interrupted his own campaigning last week to make a decision that is also likely to shape voters' perceptions. After presiding over 131 executions--about one-fifth of all the executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976--Bush for the first time issued a 30-day...
Bush mulled over his choices for 10 days, but when he finally decided to take this unprecedented step, he moved quickly. On the way to a New Mexico event to talk about military policy last Wednesday, communications chief Karen Hughes told the Texas Governor that a state court had barred...
"What Bush has to do is appear reasonable and not bloodthirsty," says a Bush adviser. "That puts him just where most Americans are. And that's what he did this week." But the race is likely to be decided in a bloc of the Great Lakes states where the death...
Sunday's Chicago Tribune unveiled the first installment of an investigation that concluded: "Under Gov. George W. Bush, Texas has executed dozens of Death Row inmates whose cases were compromised by unreliable evidence, disbarred or suspended defense attorneys, meager defense efforts during sentencing and dubious psychiatric testimony." And that's...