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...move that reveals his indifference to ethical principles, Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney announced on Tuesday the creation of a Governor’s Council on Capital Punishment. Comprised of experts in forensics and criminal justice, the Council’s assignment is to devise a system to determine guilt with sufficient certainty to prove that the death penalty—which was abolished in Massachusetts in 1984—can be reinstated without concern of wrongful executions. Romney’s attempt to make the death penalty palatable is both a moral abomination and an unreasonable pipe dream...
BOSTON—Seeking to bring about legislation next year that would reinstitute the death penalty in Massachusetts, Governor W. Mitt Romney (R) announced the formation of the Governor’s Council on Capital Punishment at the Massachusetts State House yesterday...
Following Glickman’s address, attendees had the opportunity to meet members of Harvard political groups and participate in small discussions headed by politicos such as a former Kentucky congressman and Mitt Romney’s campaign manager...
...while Governor W. Mitt Romney’s efforts to oust Bulger, however clumsy, seem to have borne fruit, Romney’s real test is whether he cares enough about the university to appoint a replacement with the qualifications and funding support to get UMass back on track...
RESIGNED. WILLIAM M. BULGER, 69, as president of the University of Massachusetts; in Boston. The former Democratic president of the state senate for 17 years, he had faced months of controversy--and attacks by Republican Governor Mitt Romney--over his ties to his brother James (Whitey) Bulger, a reputed gang member who has been a fugitive since 1995. In June, William Bulger gave what Romney said was evasive testimony about his brother to a U.S. House committee, in which he denied recognizing the name of his brother's gang...