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...everyone so caught up in the case of Betty Lou Beets? Beets, who was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening, was convicted in 1985 of murdering her fifth husband. For 15 years, her fate had raised little attention. Beyond the classic arguments between anti- and pro-death penalty factions, there is little to differentiate this case from scores of others that play out each year. So why did Beets's predicament draw such an audience? It's not because it's a rarity; in Texas, this sort of story is almost routine. Since reinstating the death penalty in 1982, Texas...
...voted to hear the case, and that may be an indication that this issue has divided the Court along very definitive lines." Also at issue: whether one or more Justices may view electrocution as cruel and unusual punishment but still support the death penalty in another form, such as lethal injection. The Justices' collective leanings, whatever they may be, will remain a source of speculation indefinitely - or at least until they decide to hear a case that challenges the death penalty...
...committed the crimes. One of the three came within two days of dying. Of 12 others who were executed, one is now believed to have been innocent. That was enough for Ryan. "Until I can be sure with moral certainty that no innocent man or woman is facing a lethal injection," he said, "no one will meet that fate...
...piece "why writers Attack Writers" [ESSAY, Jan. 24] should be compulsory reading for all writers! Especially poignant was the statement "Attack writing is personal and seeks to do personal injury." How true. This type of exchange is analogous to opposing attorneys battling a case in court. Each makes a lethal effort, regardless of the damage, to discredit the other and his witnesses. MIKE VINSON McMinnville, Tenn...
Hope's case last week helped persuade Republican Governor George Ryan, a death-penalty advocate, to take the unprecedented step of halting executions in the state. He said there would be no more lethal injections until he could "be sure with moral certainty" that no more innocent people were headed for execution...