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The way inmates and security guards tell it, Whitley sounds like the hero of a Frank Capra movie. He is open-minded, impartial, considerate. In a closed society where everyone constantly scrutinizes everyone else, he merits the highest compliment: he is straight up. "With Whitley, what you see is what...
To illustrate, prisoners usually start with July 22, 1991. At 12:10 a.m. on that date, Whitley presided over Louisiana's final execution by electric chair. Later the same day, orders reached the prison metal shop to construct the gurney that would henceforth be used for lethal injections. Two inmate...
There, glowering from its last page banishment, sat, like a spoiled child, an article that portended to prescribe a remedy for the "ills" now afflicting the game of major league baseball ("Owners: It's Time for Them To Go" December 3). In this article, the same forces which ruined the...
Capital punishment provoked heavy internal debate. The final text says that a punishment should be "proportional to the gravity of the crime, without excluding in extreme cases the death penalty." Henri Tincq of Le Monde found that "incomprehensible" in light of opposition to state execution by the hierarchies of France...
Maybe the passing of time eased the emotional sting, but the disclosure still had a shocking impact. According to records released by a retired Russian army general, Dmitri Volkogonov, 119 Americans were held in camps as Soviet prisoners of war following World War II. Of this group, 18 died in...