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...State of Texas has argued, repeatedly and eloquently, that Jesse DeWayne Jacobs did not pull the trigger of a .38-cal. pistol that killed a woman named Etta Ann Urdiales in 1986. The state convinced a jury that Jacobs did not even know that his sister, who the prosecutor insisted was the trigger person, had a gun at the time the crime was committed. Yet for that crime Jesse DeWayne Jacobs became the first person executed by Texas...
...Southeast Asia. The visit entailed some personal risk, as Filipino authorities had warned of a possible terrorist attack on airlines during the pontiff's visit. (Last week, they arrested a man after finding bomb-making materials in a nearby apartment.) Today, police arrested a man found carrying a pistol along the papal route, deployed bomb-sniffing dogs around the Papal Nunciature and even examined boxes of chocolates carried by nuns. The pontiff, undeterred, told the throng the church in the Philippines has "a special vocation" to spread Christianity among the ancient cultures of Asia...
After a busy day at the clinic, Dr. Damon Stutes, 43, changes out of his surgical scrubs and climbs into his four-wheel-drive truck, custom built for high-speed chases. He slides open his Berretta pistol to make sure it is loaded. Pointing a remote control toward a video screen on the garage wall, he flips through eight channels, each offering a different camera view of the outside grounds. As the garage's metal door slides open, he tucks a bulletproof vest between his body and the truck window and steps on the gas. "Once I start moving...
...collects guns and pays dues to the N.R.A., tends to match the inflammatory rhetoric of right-to-lifers with his own brand of aggressive, bawdy behavior. Once, when protesters came to sprinkle holy water around his former clinic, he charged out with a foot-long, penis-shaped water pistol and squirted back. The only abortion provider for an area of 200,000 sq. mi., he charges $260 each for the roughly 3,000 procedures he performs each year. His wife Lynne helps run the clinic, and Stutes says they saved for several years to make a down payment...
...fact when, a few chapters into the new novel, Richie is found deservedly dead with a pistol in his hand, his grip on the lives of Terri and her daughter does seem to tighten. Nobody believes that Richie would have been public spirited enough to commit suicide. Some very unsympathetic cops sniff around Terri and her family and finally arrest her new lover, an upstanding lawyer and senatorial candidate whose 15-year-old son the corrupt Richie had smeared with phony charges that he molested Terri's little girl...