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...Juan Garza is a different story. Most people have never heard of the 44-year-old marijuana trafficker who was convicted in 1993 in Brownsville, Texas, of murdering one associate and ordering the killings of two others. He was sentenced to death under a 1988 drug kingpin law. He also happens to be Hispanic, one of 17 minorities among the 20 (about to be 21) convicts on the Feds' death...
...were John Ashcroft, who would you rather have at the head of the line as federal executions resume for the first time since 1963 -Timothy McVeigh or Juan Garza? Unfortunately for the Attorney General, he really had no choice but to push back McVeigh's scheduled execution this month when the FBI turned up more than 3,000 pages of documents - now make it 4,000 - that hadn't been given to McVeigh's lawyers as promised before the trial. It's now set for June 11, and Ashcroft vows to give McVeigh no further extensions - but the chances...
...when it goes forward, McVeigh's will be the first federal execution since 1963. Another, that of Juan Raul Garza for three drug-related murders, is set for June. Attorney General John Ashcroft says he sees no need for a moratorium. He wouldn't be the first to change his mind...
...When the battle wound down, Arroyo declared that Manila was under a "state of rebellion," a vague term of dubious constitutionality that allows the President to arrest whomever she likes for a period of three days. She ordered the rounding up of her most bitter political foes, including Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, an Estrada loyalist and one of the heroes who toppled the Marcos regime, and former Washington ambassador Ernesto Maceda. Senator Gregorio Honasan, an Enrile ally and former army colonel involved in seven botched coup attempts in the late 1980s, refused to surrender along with nine others...
...voted most photogenic b) already devoured Miss Liechtenstein c) has not worked since Don Juan DeMarco d) is the official swimsuit photographer for Miss Universe...