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Has the bloom faded from PAULA JONES' notoriety? The woman who accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment was only Fox's second choice to compete on its show Celebrity Boxing. But aside from concerns that she might damage her reconstructed nose, Jones was only too willing to step in after...
On Monday the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles commuted the sentence of Alexander Williams, a schizophrenic man convicted of raping and murdering a young girl. Though Williams’ crime was certainly heinous, we commend the parole board for making the right decision and commuting his sentence to life...
Life in prison without parole is a preferable punishment to the death penalty; it allows the justice system to partially rectify its mistakes. Even if errors are only discovered years after the fact, it is far better to vindicate a living person than to exonerate a corpse.
DIED. JACK HENRY ABBOTT, 58, philosophical criminal whose unsettling letters to Norman Mailer about inmate life were turned into a best-selling book, In the Belly of the Beast; a suicide, by hanging; in his cell in Alden, N.Y., near Buffalo. With Mailer's help, Abbott, serving time for armed...
DIED. WAYLON JENNINGS, 64, grizzled Grammy-winning country singer who recorded Nashville's first platinum album (Wanted: The Outlaws); in Chandler, Arizona. With his black Stetson and brash persona, Jennings, along with Willie Nelson, led country's outlaw movement of the late '60s and early '70s?a honky-tonk response...