Word: florida
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...surge in executions has been an exclusively Southern phenomenon: all 20 this year have taken place in the South, eight of them in Florida. "The Sunbelt has always been the most execution-prone section of the country," says Watt Espy, a capital-punishment expert at the University of Alabama Law Center, who cites the area's traditions of frontier violence and eye-for-an-eye justice. But this regionalism will probably end soon. Indiana expects to put at least one person to death during 1985. So do Nebraska, Missouri and Idaho...
...that some capital-punishment statutes were constitutional, state legislatures promptly began passing new laws that conformed with the high court's criteria. The murderers convicted under those statutes are only now exhausting their appeals. "The people who are getting executed have already had stays," says University of Florida Sociologist Michael Radelet "And the people on death row are running out of issues for the courts to rule...
Though official U.S. aid has dried up, CIA agents still reportedly advise contra leaders on military tactics. The rebels have tapped fresh sources of support; among the countries rumored to give assistance are Colombia and Taiwan. Help also comes from Nicaraguan and Cuban exiles living in Florida as well as from a network of conservative groups in the U.S. Food, clothing and medical supplies have been sent to the families of contras by such organizations as the Christian Broadcasting Network, headed by Virginia Television Evangelist M.G. ("Pat") Robertson, and the Friends of the Americas, a Louisiana-based group dedicated...
...American dream of owning a home has been taking quite a beating lately, with the price of a new house averaging $100,100. But residents of Florida can dream again, thanks to William J. Levitt, 77. Known as the father of American suburbia for his Levittowns, the master builder constructed huge complexes of inexpensive housing after World War II on the edges of major American cities. Now Levitt is back with a grand new project-a $2 billion community that will go up on the outskirts of Orlando and be called Villa Poinciana. Its 26,000 homes will be priced...
...Florida officials, though, are worried about the impact of Levitt's new town. They say that such a massive project would overwhelm water, sewer and other local services. But the master builder is undeterred. Says he: "Bear in mind that we're veterans in this business...