Word: requester
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after John Paul left Missouri, Governor Mel Carnahan commuted the sentence of a convicted triple murderer from death to life without parole. Carnahan, a Baptist, announced that "I continue to support capital punishment," but after the Pontiff's "direct and personal appeal...I decided to grant his request." The irony is that while the Pope's argument that "the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil" may have swayed Carnahan, if only temporarily, Gallup polls find 53% of the Catholic American flock rejecting the position...
...website and what you saw there. Unfortunately, if you disable them (through your browser's preferences menu) you can't get into websites that require cookies. And if you opt for the middle ground--warn me if anyone wants my cookie--you end up going crazy since many sites request them dozens of times. Fortunately, there's Anonymizer...
...appeal or a basic reversal of philosophy regarding capital punishment, not on the admittedly convincing words of the leader of the Catholic Church? Of course, there is always the question of whether the many Catholic voters in Missouri will remember this one-time acquiescence to a papal request favorably come election time. The governor can probably count...
...fundraiser in Boston Tuesday, wisely spent much of the afternoon pitching his plan to improve the quality of the nation's public schools. The proposals, which would spend an extra $4.98 billion on a variety of teacher training and class-size reduction initiatives from his fiscal 2000 budget request, are most significant because they place greater emphasis on school accountability. Under the plan, first unveiled in last month's State of the Union Address, school districts would receive federal funding only if they meet a certain level of minimum standards...
...from his hiding place and shot each one in the face. Mease was to die by lethal injection in two weeks, and Carnahan, the governor, had approved 26 executions since he took office six years ago. Yet he could not be expected to withstand the pressure of a personal request from John Paul II, and last Thursday he granted Mease clemency...