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The long appeals process in death penalty cases is intended to minimize the chances of an error. In the Brooks case. Texas may have killed the wrong man. Brooks and a partner were both convicted in 1977 of murdering an automobile mechanic the year before. It never came out in...
Unlike many accused felons, Charles Harrelson did not try to depict himself as an upstanding citizen, even while proclaiming his innocence. On trial in San Antonio since late September for the 1979 assassination of Federal Judge John H. Wood Jr., Harrelson, now serving a 40-year sentence on drug and...
The campaign in favor of this ballot questions represents demagoguery at its worst. Urban residents have grown increasingly uncomfortable in recent years about the dangerous environment that surrounds them. But promising legal execution merely panders to these fears, rather than constructively taking care of them. Every thorough study has shown...
Carol Lawler's 15-year-old son was one of the 250,000 people killed during the past 10 years in a drunk driving accident. A drunk driver careened off the road and crushed him as he stood with his family on the lawn of a restaurant. But since the...
Exasperation with high crime and chaotic justice does not always produce hasty, broad-brush legislation. Determinate or presumptive sentencing, now the law in eleven states, is a more thoughtful kind of overhaul, a necessary reform of an old reform gone awry. Beginning around 1900, indeterminate sentences?"two to five" or...