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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alabama, 69% of those executed since 1976 were black. In Georgia the figure is 55%. Even though blacks are more likely than whites to be the victim of homicide, the overwhelming majority of capital cases involve crimes committed against people who are white. The disparity was attacked in a landmark 1987 case, McClesky v. Kemp. Warren McClesky, a black man convicted of killing a white police officer in Georgia, based his appeal on a study that showed killers of white people were four times as likely to get the death penalty as killers of nonwhites. That wasn't enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: DEATH OR LIFE? | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

...about 1.3 million households and businesses in Rhode Island and Massachusetts will have become pioneers in electric consumption as a result of landmark pacts that Rowe negotiated with each state. His achievement is the latest step in a process that began developing nearly two decades ago. As far back as the 1970s, independent producers started selling power to utilities; a 1992 federal law required utilities to open their lines free of charge to such wholesalers. The growing wholesale competition created a demand for retail freedom of choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTRIC POWER: COMPETITIVE JOLTS | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

WATCH TOWER: Parisian days and nights fly by on a 50-ton, 1,342-light sign at the second level of Monsieur Eiffel's iron landmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 9, 1997 | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...Bank, has commissioned a second architect to make stronger efforts to preserve the building's historic feel. The CHC will make a final decision on renovation plans tomorrow, and sources involved in Harvard Square commerce say there's a very good chance Reed Block could be made a historic landmark, helping those fighting to preserve The Tasty...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: The Changing Face of the Square | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Lewis has worked for various newspapers besides the Times and written three books on law and society: Gideon's Trumpet, about the landmark Supreme Court case; Portrait of a Decade, about changes in American race relations; and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL. | Title: Champion of Underdogs | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

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