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While states in New England and the Northern Midwest and Pacific Northwest either forbid capital punishment or rarely use the laws on their books, in the South putting people to death has become a part of life. That is especially true in Texas, which has had 127 executions since 1976, almost a third of the national total. Today 448 people wait on death row in Texas. "If they keep going at the rate they're going," says Stephen Bright, "it won't be long before Texas will have executed more people than all the rest of the states put together...
Since the summer of 1995, Oppenheimer has been infiltrating neo-Nazi organizations in London, the Northeast United States and the Pacific Northwest...
...June 16, Simon and his mother, along with 28 other people ages 7 and older, will begin 13 days of excavating one of the largest intact Chinese ground-sluicing operations in the Pacific Northwest. Gold was discovered in Idaho's Boise Basin in 1862. Some 8,000 miners, mostly of European origin, rushed in. By 1870, Chinese miners were staking claims or purchasing or leasing them. In 1881 Hop Lee, of the Hong Lee Tong, signed a lease for a placer claim at the junction of Mores and Granite creeks. It is this site, opened in 1995 (with Simon...
...crimes conviction since World War II, a U.N. tribunal found Bosnian Serb Dusan Tadic found guilty on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the systematic beatings, torture and persecution of Muslims and Croats living in and around three Serb-run camps in northwest Bosnia. A sentencing hearing scheduled for July 1 is likely to be postponed pending an appeal by Tadic's lawyer. While the tribunal hails Tadic's conviction as a sign that justice can be served, its reach has so far proved limited. The tribunal, which has no police powers...
...hasn't been a happy year for grunge fans. First Courtney Love gets herself all glammed up, and now this. The seminal Seattle rockers SOUNDGARDEN, one of the first bands to break out of the Northwest, have split up. The terse announcement from their record company gave no reason, not even the usual pat of "creative differences." While never as high-profile as Nirvana or Pearl Jam, the Grammy-winning band sold more than 20 million records. Down on the Upside, their last album, reached No. 2 on the charts. The band, which had recently finished touring, hadn't taken...