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That's right--Walsh has refused to resign from his post on the council after being found guilty of enough crimes to put him in prison for two lifetimes. Apparently, he believes that he can overturn all 41 convictions and the results of a four-year federal investigation. Perhaps another...
But despite every prediction to the contrary, Lehman stood on the 18th tee only a shot behind Jose Maria Olazabal. His course management flawless, his shot execution nerveless, Lehman had parried the best broadsides from the newest galleon in the Spanish Armada, and victory still lay within his grasp.
Two weeks ago, Gayle Daniels, the only black juror on the 1984 sentencing panel, swore in an affidavit that she did not vote for execution because she "did not believe ((Hance)) knew what he was doing at the time of his crimes." Daniels recounted how jurors initially favored a life...
WILLIAM HANCE'S APPOINTMENT with the electric chair was set for 7 p.m. Thursday. On Wednesday, the Georgia board of pardons and paroles rejected Hance's appeal for clemency. The next day, both a state and federal court refused to halt the execution; then the U.S. Supreme Court, after a...
Hance became the 231st convict to be executed since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. But this execution raised more disturbing questions than most. For one thing, a woman who was among the 12 jurors to sentence Hance to death in 1984 has sworn that she never...