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...have been carried out in the U.S., most of them in Texas, Florida, Louisiana and Georgia. The prospect that the Southern "death belt" will be joined by California has opponents of capital punishment worried. "California is the key state in the death-penalty debate," says American University law professor Ira Robbins. "If a fairly moderate-to-liberal state can execute someone, then states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania might be next...
...After several people approached the police with new information in late February, officers armed with a search warrant confiscated records and tapes from the psychologist's office. Lawyers for the Menendez brothers argued that seizure of the tapes violated the laws governing doctor-patient confidentiality. But the district attorney, Ira Reiner, said the confidentiality rule can be broken when a patient presents a continuing danger or threat. The district attorney filed murder charges against the Menendez brothers, asking for the death penalty. Said Reiner: "It's been our experience in the district attorney's office that $14 million provides ample...
...grant from the Ira W. DeCamp Foundation will be distributed over five years to the Division of Medical Ethics, which was created six months ago but has lacked major funding, said Dr. Lynn M. Peterson, who directs the Medical School program...
...most drastic approach comes from Congressman John Porter, an Illinois Republican. He suggests that the Federal Government each year refund the Social Security surplus into Individual Social Security Retirement Accounts. Every worker could direct his account, like an IRA, into an array of nonspeculative investments, including Government bonds or certain mutual funds. The result, says Porter, would be a system of "vested, fully funded, worker-owned retirement accounts" -- though one in which the more successful investors would reap the larger benefits...
Either plan -- a broad capital-gains cut or liberalized IRA deduction -- would cost a fortune. (A bargain capital-gains tax rate would shake loose revenues at first as investors sold to take advantage of it but in the long run come back to bite us.) So it may be that given the deficit, we can afford neither...