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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sheila Knox sits in her backyard on a gravel road on the outskirts of Richmond, Va., and flips through old photographs of her brother Joseph O'Dell. It's hardly a typical family album. There's Bubba, as she calls him, in a schoolboy outfit, leaning up against his baby sister. Then a grownup Bubba hugging her when she visited him on Christmas Day at a Florida prison. And finally Bubba shortly before the Commonwealth of Virginia executed him by lethal injection. Knox believes they killed the wrong man. And she knows the state now has the tools to prove...
...O'Dell saga began 14 years ago in a muddy field across the street from the County Line, a Virginia Beach honky-tonk. There the police found the lifeless body of Helen Schartner, 44, a secretary. Her head had been smashed by blows from a handgun, and she had been strangled until her neck snapped...
Entrepreneur O'Donnell is a former assistant dean at the business School and currently serves as chair of Boston Concessions Group. But he is better known in Boston as founder of the Joey Fund, a non-profit organization named for his late son and dedicated to helping those with cystic fibrosis...
...O'Donnell calls Harvard "a great experience" and said he is also dedicated to serving a diverse group of students...
...resolve to make use of everything available here. "You can't. It's not humanly possible. In my first year here I saw, met or was involved in an educational experience with Seamus Heaney, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Alice Walker, Will Smith, Marisa Tomei, Ellen Goodman '63, Patricia O'Brien, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language Patricia Powell, Elizabeth McCracken, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. '60, Alphonse Flethcer Jr. University Professor Cornel West '74, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy...