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> In a 6-to-3 ruling, the Justices approved a speeded-up method of processing the last-ditch legal maneuvers of condemned prisoners. Thomas Andy Barefoot, 37, convicted in the shooting death of a police officer in Bell County, Texas, had filed a direct state court appeal, a previous petition...
To tell the story of a first-generation American, who like many of his ilk would undergo any contortion in order to join the national mainstream, Woody Allen (who plays Zelig) has chosen a form that is utterly original in conception and exhilarating in execution. It is a parody of...
Brutal Execution
The death penalty may be necessary, but the way John Louis Evans died, after three electrical jolts, is inexcusable [May 2]. Execution can never be humane. The least we can do is make it efficient and as dignified as possible.
Paper #2 stars off handsomely enough, but it becomes merely a list of examples of light-images in "R & J," doggedly culled but only casually sorted, and explained in the most brief and generalized way. The overall idea, of darkness setting off the lovers' light, is good enough, but the...