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...kingpin. It's the 12th time since he took office last year that Ashcroft has ordered the death penalty when his local prosecutors did not seek it, according to the Death Penalty Resource Council, a network of lawyers who help capital defendants. He's easily outpacing his predecessor, Janet Reno, who in her last five years sought the death penalty 26 times when her prosecutors had not requested it, according to DOJ numbers...
...murder he was convicted of took place a few hundred feet inside national forestland. In Vermont, another state without the death penalty, Ashcroft two weeks ago rejected a plea agreement worked out by the U.S. Attorney with lawyers for Donald Fell, accused of a kidnapping and killing. Under Reno's policy, U.S. Attorneys could work out pleas in death cases on their own; now they must be approved by Ashcroft--for greater consistency, he says. In a recent Maryland case, Ashcroft also directed prosecutors, against their advice, to go for the death penalty against two murder defendants. "There appears...
...political agenda that started in the Clinton administration. Traficant claims that he has been hounded by both minority leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.)—who has been mad at Traficant for his repeated clashes with Democratic leaders in the House—and Janet Reno, whom, he felt, must have borne a grudge for his insinuation on national television that...
...JANET RENO get invited to the ELTON JOHN/INSTYLE party? And why do they have the same hairdo...
RECOVERING. JANET RENO, 63, sanguine former Attorney General now running for Florida Governor; after fainting during a speech in Rochester, N.Y. On her release from a local hospital, where she got a clean bill of health, Reno joked in reference to the recent Bush mishap, "I don't have a bump on my cheek...