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...being. We comfortably call him "O.J.," even though we've never met him, because in our mind he's a friend. Even if convicted of murder, he'll never be an abstract symbol of evil like the typical death-penalty customer with three names -- Robert Alton Harris, Rickey ; Ray Rector, John Wayne Gacy et al. For once, in the competition of humanization between the murderer and his victims, the murderer would have an unbeatable edge...
Conservative activists are unmoved by images of Dickensian poorhouses, given the breakdown in families and the caseloads drowning the foster-care system. "Nothing could be worse than the current system," argues Robert Rector, a senior policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation. "The current system has already pulled the family apart. The system treats having a child out of wedlock as a favored life-style that's deliberately subsidized by the government. Nothing could be more harmful than that." True enough, but Clinton's point man Reed disagrees with the orphanage solution. "It's the kind of goofy social engineering that...
Although lethal injection has become the most popular method in most states because of its pain-free "humaneness," in eight cases before Gacy's it was anything but. The most heartrending: the execution of Rickey Ray Rector, sentenced to die for murdering a policeman. On Jan. 24, 1992, in Conway, Arkansas, loud moans spilled out of the death chamber as technicians kept Rector tied down during a search for "good" veins. Attendants were about to prepare a "cut-down," in which the arm is sliced open to insert an intravenous catheter, when a vein in his right hand was finally...
...shirts, only work clothes and leather allowed." At home, the authors say, Klein plied hustlers with cocaine and Quaaludes, and the wonder is that he has survived at all. Finally, in 1988, he entered a drug-rehabilitation hospital and joined Alcoholics Anonymous. By then he had also married Kelly Rector, a pretty assistant with whom he lives the country gent's life in the Hamptons...
...scandals -- ranging from clandestine liaisons with adult parishioners to clerical pedophilia -- have focused fresh attention on the life of the Catholic priest and turned him into a suspect figure in many eyes. Says Monsignor Edwin O'Brien, rector of the North American Pontifical College in Rome: "A priest would have to be out of his mind now to touch a kid, even if it's just to pat him on the head or tap him on the shoulder." The scandals are forcing the American clergy -- and, ever so reluctantly, the Vatican -- to examine the nature and tradition of the priesthood...