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Still, the politics of death resonates -- so much so that even Cuomo, to prove that he is "tough" on crime, now favors life without parole as an alternative to the electric chair. He admits such sentences negate the notion of rehabilitation (which he still believes is possible, "even in prison...
Cuomo's latest tactic is a referendum. "As soon as I can," he says, "I want to get two competing statutes on the ballot: the death penalty and life without parole. I still think that during a focused campaign on the issue, one where you can have a real debate...
Civil rights activists and social scientists have long warned that poor education, drug abuse, high crime rates and widespread violence have made young black men an endangered species. Last week a report issued by the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based organization that promotes research on criminal justice, found that approximately...
"I want it known nationally that I don't ever want to see my father again," David Rothenberg, 13, declared last week in Buena Park, Calif. He is still horribly scarred from the burns he suffered in 1983 when Charles Rothenberg, in a custody fight with his ex-wife, poured...
"I'm deeply sorry for the people who have been hurt," Bakker contritely told U.S. District Judge Robert Potter just before the sentencing. "I have sinned. I have made mistakes. But never in my life did I intend to defraud anyone." That last-ditch bid for leniency made little impression...