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...tightest match of the day was in final slot, where Harvard's Howland Murphy edged out Lindsay Fowler...
...Supreme Court has agreed to decide before June whether the mandatory provision makes constitutional the death sentence of one convict, Jesse Fowler. His case appropriately originated in North Carolina, which has one of the stiffest new statutes. It now has by far the nation's largest death-row population. TIME Correspondent Jack White recently visited Fowler and the other condemned inmates...
...hopes of the condemned focus on the Fowler appeal. A tenth-grade dropout, Fowler, 26, was convicted of killing a man after a fight in July 1973. At his trial, he recalls, "I didn't know anything about the death penalty. I didn't believe that they would give it to a black man for killing another black man." Fowler has maintained a certain fatalistic nonchalance through his 14-month confinement. He wears a cap with the motto "Death Before Dishonor," and refuses cigarettes because "Smoking is hazardous to my health...
...been executed in North Carolina since 1961 or in the U.S. since 1967. In his appeal for Fowler, Attorney Charles Becton of Chapel Hill will argue that the death sentence not only violates prevailing standards of justice but is also still being capriciously applied. Fowler could just as easily have been convicted of manslaughter or second-degree murder, neither of which now carries the death penalty. "If they kill me," says Fowler, "it'll be nothing more than premeditated murder...
Backs named to the team are Steve Ralbovsky of Brown, John Borozzi of Penn, Tony Fowler of Columbia, Cornell's Jay Holbrook and the Big Green's Steve Papai...