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Kudos to governor George Ryan for commuting the death sentences of all the prisoners on death row in Illinois [NATION, Jan. 20]. America's barbaric death penalty is no deterrent to violent murderers. The execution of just one innocent person is not acceptable. The U.S. Supreme Court should abolish the death penalty. Life in prison without parole should be the maximum penalty, even for those who commit heinous murders. PAUL L. WHITELEY SR. Louisville...
...priorities at the Old Vic will be to encourage attendance among young people. Iceman's acclaimed 1998 run, in both New York and London, featured subsidized student tickets that included some of the choicest seats in the house. "When you have a youthful, eager, excited audience in the front row, you infect the entire room with a kind of energy, and it also affects the actors," says Spacey. During Iceman - his first appearance onstage at the Old Vic - Spacey was asked to sit on the board of the theater, which had recently changed ownership. "I suspect they were reacting...
While their initial trial represents a picture of the legal system at its worst and most dangerous, Hernandez and Cruz were only two of the thirteen Illinois death row inmates who were later exonerated; the reversals of these convictions—and 11 others—prompted Ryan to impose a moratorium on capital punishment in Jan. 2000, to the joy of anti-death penalty activists everywhere...
This opinion piece was featured just after Governor Ryan’s recent decision to pardon four Illinois death row inmates and commute the sentences of the rest to life in prison. Ryan acted in response to the findings of the death penalty commission, whose final report concluded that the death penalty as it currently exists in the state is not responsibly applied. The commission had recommended 85 reforms which would allow the death penalty to begin to operate fairly...
Fairfield laments the fact that participants are not allowed to attend the summer workshop two years in a row...