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What course of appeal does a prisoner have if he believes he has been handed a death sentence largely because he is black? At the moment, none. The Racial Justice Act, or some form of it, might open up an avenue -- but only if it remains part of the omnibus crime bill now before Congress. The act would allow minority inmates on death row in federal and state prisons to use statistics to show that their sentence was part of a pattern of discrimination. For example, if the number of blacks sentenced to die or for whom prosecutors sought...
...guns. At the same time, the House vote is a victory for thousands of law-enforcement groups and grass-roots advocates, who may now be emboldened to open a new and bigger front in the battle for gun control. The House bill, similar to a provision in the omnibus crime bill passed by the Senate in November, would apply to a group of semiautomatic assault weapons that are among those increasingly favored by drug dealers, armed robbers and mass murderers. Unlike automatic weapons -- strictly regulated firearms that continue firing as long as the trigger is held back -- the guns targeted...
Most egregiously, Gabay has now begun to perpetrate a purposeful falsehood about the petition, calling it, at this week's Harvard Political Union debate on the subject, an "omnibus bill." As a senior government major, Gabay must be aware that an omnibus bill allows just one vote, "yes" or "no," on an entire package of legislation. And Gabay knows that our referendum allows a separate vote on each of the issues. This is the same pattern of fabrication that is apparent in his statements about our student government constitution...
...intention of the constitution isn't tohave an omnibus bill," Gabay said. "[It's] to givestudents a voice to combat paternalistic effortsand pick what they want...
Clearly, the Administration is not speaking with one voice on adopting anti-crime measures. The Omnibus Crime Bill which is making its way through Congress calls for stiffer prison sentences and the building of more prisons, measures which the Heymann Report describes as counterproductive. Heymann may have been a victim of this discord between the White House and the Justice Department...