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Happily, exactly the opposite happened: the assassination resulted in a massive crackdown against criminal elements of the old regime still operating in Serbia's security forces. Code-named Operation Sabre, the investigation into Djindjic's murder has produced truck loads of evidence for the special prosecutor's office. The conspirators, police say, were led by two men: Milorad (Legija) Lukovic, still at large, and Dusan Spasojevic, who was killed resisting arrest. Both men served with the Red Berets, which has been linked to war crimes and now to dozens of political murders under the Milosevic regime. So far, 45 conspirators...
...fall of Suharto. The military of late has already been reasserting itself as senior generals helped author a bill now before Parliament that, if passed, would permit them to act without presidential approval. Trials for the killing and pillaging in East Timor in 1999 and the 2002 murder of Papuan independence movement leader Theys Eluay failed to hold any top military brass accountable. (Army chief Ryamizard Ryacudu said the soldiers convicted of killing Theys deserved medals instead of the light prison sentences they received.) And with a presidential election next year, leading politicians are loath to defy the generals...
Delma Banks Jr. was as good as dead on March 12, 2002, when the Supreme Court ordered a stay of execution with only a few minutes to spare. That was his 15th scheduled execution date. A black man convicted of murder in 1980 by an all-white jury, Banks appealed his death sentence on the grounds of racial bias, defense incompetence and prosecutorial misconduct. Only these last two claims were accepted for review...
...what will undoubtedly and tragically be forgotten, as the Supreme Court reviews Banks’s 1980 murder case this fall and as politicians everywhere continue to debate peripheral details of the death penalty process, is that capital punishment has lost any claim to ethical acceptability anywhere else in the Western industrialized world. Flaws such as racial bias are ultimately insignificant (in fact, whites receive the death penalty slightly more often than blacks overall, and the race of the defendant is of much less statistical relevance than that of the victim, according to research by Smith College scholars published...
...Massachusetts, a charge of first degree murder can only come from the majority decision of a grand jury...