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Finally, last year, his appeal to a higher court turned down, Taborsky was sent to a minimum-security facility, where for two months he was kept in shackles, clearing brush. Now scheduled for release in April, he has refused an offer of a pardon by Florida Governor Lawton Chiles. Accepting the offer, he says, would mean admitting he is guilty, and he is confident that he will eventually be vindicated. Despite his travails, he says, "I'm seeking justice and seeking the truth. I believe in the system of justice in the United States...
...fatness of these pursy times/ Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg," says Hamlet to Gertrude. Pursy means short-winded, in poor condition...
...knows." The Boone County prosecutor's office insists--and a jury agreed--that the shooting was premeditated. But the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, spurred by Dr. Kimberly Martin, a pediatrician and shelter volunteer who once took in Kay and her children, is urging Governor Gaston Caperton to pardon Weekley. The Governor declined to speak with TIME, but a spokesperson says Caperton intends to announce a decision before he leaves office...
...would like to see all Governors, not just Caperton, take a close look at the cases of women currently serving time for killing a batterer. Some are already doing so. Two weeks ago, for instance, New Hampshire Governor Stephen Merrill and the state's executive council decided to pardon June Briand, who has served nearly 10 years of a 15-year-to-life sentence for shooting her abusive husband. "You want to approach these with the same skepticism as you would other cases," Campbell says, "but if there's evidence and we can apply the relatively new knowledge we have...
...Weekleys have given up fighting the drive to pardon Kay. "What's done is done," says Lucinda. "It's not going to bring my brother back." Kay, who is studying for her G.E.D., says that if she gets out of jail, she would like to help other battered women. For now, though, she cries when she thinks about her children, who visit her every Saturday. "What hurts me the most is that the kids will say, 'Mommy, I need to talk to you, just me and you,'" she says. "That's just something that can't be done, because someone...