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...same time, California has cast its shadow over ambitious deregulation plans being launched in such states as Oklahoma, Nevada and Arkansas (see following stories). Says Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates: "The California crisis puts questions about our entire energy infrastructure front and center...
...handful of states, such as West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nevada and New Mexico, are so spooked by the chaos on the West Coast that, at least for the moment, they are pulling the plug on deregulation. "We're going to wait for the smoke to clear," says North Carolina state senator David Hoyle, co-chairman of the legislative commission that just delayed the planned deregulation...
Texas won in a rout last year (40 to 11), but Oklahoma led the country in per-capita executions. And the state is beginning 2001 ambitiously. It can't claim credit if Timothy McVeigh is put to death--he's a federal prisoner--but it has already scheduled eight of its own through Feb. 1. And one of the two last week included the first black woman put to death in the U.S. in nearly a half-century...
...slow," a former classmate said at the Oklahoma City home of Allen's mother. Mary Allen herself is marginally articulate. She sat barefoot in her parlor, crying at the mention of Wanda while a roach tiptoed over a grandchild's sneaker. A relative with Tourette's syndrome--one of several kin with disabilities--called, and the speaker phone broadcast a tirade in which he threatened a member of the defense team. "It's hard to believe," Presson said, "but Wanda Jean is the brain trust of that family...
...that it would have mattered. Oklahoma is one of 13 states that do not prohibit executions of the mentally deficient. Still, Presson argued in last-minute appeals that prosecutors knowingly misled the clemency board when they claimed Allen was a high school graduate and briefly attended college. Prosecutors, who insist that Allen was competent and functional, said Allen herself made those claims at her murder trial. And indeed she did, inexplicably and irrationally damaging her own cause...