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...Despite the fact that Ryan had character witnesses like famed death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean, the jury was apparently sold on the government's position laid out in the first few minutes of closing arguments, which began March 13. "This is a case about a betrayal of trust, of corruption at the very highest levels of state government," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel Levin, launching into a hours-long recounting of a trial that began on Sept. 19 and of a case that goes back roughly 13 years. "He might as well have put up a 'For Sale' sign...
Tremendous pressure was also building on Paulding. Sister Helen Prejean, the anti-death-penalty crusader and author of Dead Man Walking, called the devout Catholic attorney on the phone. Prejean says the conversation was blunt: "'T.R.,' I told him, 'you are the one movable part of this machinery of death.'" Eventually, a judge made an extraordinary threat to take away Paulding's law license if any new evidence about Ross's competence emerged after he had been executed. An hour from death, Ross backed down--in order to save his lawyer's neck, he says. The aborted execution cost...
...nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, and the Israelis who developed their own nuclear weapons. The Americans, not Khan, should be at the top of that list. Aziz al Rehman Karachi A Sister's Sympathy It is interesting to note that in your interview with Roman Catholic Sister Helen Prejean about her stand against the death penalty [Feb. 21], she did not express sorrow or sympathy for the innocent victims of crime and their grieving relatives. She talked about letters from prisoners' mothers as being some of the saddest but didn't mention the victims' mothers. Leonid Oleinik Wanamassa...
Sister Helen Prejean's 1993 book against the death penalty, Dead Man Walking, became a movie and even an opera. At 65, she's only getting angrier. In The Death of Innocents, she escorts two men to their executions--and this time she's sure they are not guilty. Prejean spoke, barely pausing for breath, with TIME's Amanda Ripley about the Pope, politics and hypocrisy...
...Prejean said a Terence McNally-directed opera of Dead Man Walking in San Francisco is in the works, as well as a series of nationwide dramatic productions of her work led by Tim Robbins...