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...should he be kept alive to tell his tales? Seattle is divided on the issue. Many of the victims' relatives are in favor of the death penalty, and the prosecutor, Norm Maleng, has indicated that he is not interested in engaging in any plea bargaining. As sheriff, Reichert is torn between wanting to know the whole story and wanting to inflict the ultimate punishment. A cautious man, he makes the point that Ridgway is innocent until proved guilty. "I would love to have the opportunity to visit with him and learn the what, where, why, when...
...nuns knew about it, the priests knew about it," Tamara Stokes said on local television last week about the alleged abuse of her son, but "no one looked at his plea." Stokes' family left St. Edward. He dropped out of high school and suffered depression. In the mid-'90s he attempted suicide. He was convinced, says his employer Fisher, that people in the church wanted "to make him feel that it was his fault...
...Helder has cheerfully - some authorities say manically - confessed to his crimes, leaving his attorneys with a dwindling list of options for mounting a defense. Will they try an insanity plea? It's possible. It seems Helder knew what he was doing: he reportedly called his father and left notes for his roommate, tipping them off about his crime spree; he also sent a warning letter/manifesto to the student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The question is whether he knew that what he was doing was wrong...
...convinced he has told the whole truth about his role in what a blue ribbon commission recently called "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history." Hanssen's lawyer, Plato Cacheris, insists his client has done his best to cooperate fully, as he pledged when he struck a plea bargain last July to avoid the death penalty. Still, some FBI officials think serious inconsistencies remain in his account of 21 years as a double agent for Soviet intelligence, during which he is estimated to have betrayed 50 U.S. spies and potential recruits. (It didn't help that Hanssen lost...
...shared sacrifice to hold off on permanent tax cuts—or maybe even to cancel some that haven’t kicked in yet. But the tax cuts are too precious for Bush to touch, even if he has to turn down the energy department’s plea for new security measures at our nation’s nuclear plants...