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...murder charge, Cook walked free in 1999 bearing horrifying tales of prosecutorial misconduct. The even bigger surprise is that lawmakers in Texas--which for years has put more people to death than any other state--have been listening to Cook's story and are considering a once unthinkable moratorium on executions...
...life without parole to sentencing options in capital cases; another would exempt the mentally retarded from capital punishment and improve the quality of lawyers assigned to the cases of indigent defendants. Most striking of all is a bill that would allow Texans to vote on imposing a two-year moratorium on executions. When it was recently considered by a panel of lawmakers, "I heard them saying things like, 'How can it hurt?'" says Texas Defender Service lawyer Maurie Levin. "You would not have heard that in the last legislative session" two years ago. The moratorium bill won't pass this...
...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...
...Last week, while Kim Jong Nam was being detained in Japan, his father was toasting representatives of the European Commission who were on a rare visiting diplomatic mission. He used the occasion to commit to the country's moratorium on missile tests, signaling hope for renewed talks to thaw relations between the two Koreas. But just as the rest of the world was beginning to move beyond its conception of North Korea as a wacky, dysfunctional regime, along comes the son of the leader, using a fake passport to go sightseeing. Memo to the world: there is nothing normal about...
...NORTH KOREA Moratorium Kim Jong Il told a visiting E.U. delegation that he will maintain a ban on missile tests until 2003 and would agree to a second summit with South Korea. The commitments were announced by Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson, the first Western leader to visit North Korea. In Seoul, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung praised the E.U. delegation for "playing the role of a messenger of peace...