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...prison lifer who allegedly clubbed serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and another murderer to death was charged with the crimes today, shortly after he said God instructed him to do it. Christopher J. Scarver -- a 25-year-old killer who once claimed to be the son of God -- was cleaning a prison locker room with Dahmer and another notorious Wisconsin killer, Jesse Anderson, on Nov. 28 when he clubbed both on the head with a 20-inch steel bar he'd stolen from the jail's weight room, authorities said. When a guard asked him why he was back from work...
...former minister and fervent pro-lifer is the suspect in the shotgun murder of a Pensacola, Fla. abortion-clinic doctor and his volunteer security escort. Dr. John Bayard Britton, 69, was wearing a bullet-proof vest, but the gunman shot him in the head. The wife of the slain escort was injured. Paul Hill, who has in the past advocated violence as a biblically sanctioned means to stop abortion, has been arrested. Another Pensacola abortion-clinic physician was murdered in March, 1993. Spokespeople for and against abortion rights condemned today's slaying...
...When pro-lifer Michael Griffin shot abortion doctor David Gunn in March of last year, the killing helped crystallize a growing public skepticism that the confrontational blockade-and-harass tactics of organizations like Randall Terry's Operation Rescue and Joseph Scheidler's Pro-Life Action Network accurately reflected the compassionate motivations of many pro-lifers. The pro-choice movement, not surprisingly, had already noticed a growing violence among its opposition, and associated it quite directly with the ascension of groups like Terry's and Scheidler's. Since the mid-1980s the choicers had been searching for a sort of statutory...
...handing out 99-year, no-parole sentences all over the place. That's ridiculous. States can't afford to keep locking people away for eternity. It takes $1 million to house a lifer. Look at these convicts around me. They're old men at 50, like me, or even 40. The fire's been burned out of them years ago. Most of them you'll never have to worry about again...
...balked; then 375 convicts joined their "work buck." Confronted by every warden's worst nightmare -- a prisoner rebellion -- Whitley did the unthinkable: he backed down. He publicly called the idea a bad one and said a private contractor would build the table instead. "He admitted he was wrong," says lifer Patrick DeVille. "Wardens just don't do that...