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Margaret Carlson's commentary on the death penalty [PUBLIC EYE, Feb. 21] was critical of the swift pace of executions in Texas. I suppose "swift" refers to the average of 11 years 8 months served in prison by Texas death-row inmates while Governor Bush has been in office. Most...
But that just isn't so. Death in Texas, where there are about 450 capital cases pending, is swift. The postconviction review office was shut down five years ago, and there is no public-defender service to speak of. Judges, most of them supporters of the death penalty, tend to...
More than just a job, Spare Change provides a community for the homeless and the indigent. Spare Change, as part of the Homeless Empowerment Project, also offers computer literacy classes to vendors as well as other opportunities. Shorey, who has no family in the area, views Spare Change as a...
If fashion--particularly of the haute-couture variety--is all about fantasy, then last week's Christian Dior show proved particularly effective, offering the woman who can afford a $25,000 dress the chance to look as if she slept in the gutter. For his Spring/Summer 2000 collection, Dior's...
"I think what happened was the Harvard lawyers said, these are a couple guys who do indigent criminal defense, we don't have to take them seriously because they're not from big law firms," Doherty says. "They just walked into this blind alley, and we were waiting for them...