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About 3,700 inmates now sit on death row. How many may be retarded? No one is sure, but states that formerly allowed them to be executed are bracing for a flood of petitions claiming mental incapacity. In Texas the Dallas Morning News' review of the state's 455 death-row inmates identified at least 20 who raised mental deficiency as an issue at trial or on appeal. North Carolina adopted a ban on executing the retarded last August. Ken Rose, the executive director of the North Carolina Center for Death Penalty Litigation, says that of the 213 condemned killers...
Brian Corbett, a spokesman for the Alabama Board of Corrections, says that prior to the high court's ruling, only one of that state's 187 condemned killers had raised the issue. But now he expects many more. "I heard someone say that if a death-row inmate does not raise the issue now, he should have his IQ checked...
...Woods won four majors in a row. The Washington Post's Thomas Boswell found that if you take these four and add the 2001 Players Championship (considered the next most important tournament), Tiger shot a cumulative 1,357 strokes--55 strokes better than the next...
...take months, because great chess masters are so evenly matched that 80% of tournament games end in draws. Victories come at rare intervals; six wins can take forever. Not this time. Fischer conducted a campaign unrivaled since Scipio Africanus leveled Carthage. He beat two challengers six games in a row, which, combined with wins before and after, produced a streak of 20 straight victories against the very best--something never seen before and likely never to be seen again...
...stage, there are 11 rows of chairs, with 24 people per row, each person sitting straight-backed, hands neatly placed on their legs. The men all wear black suits with white shirts and ties. They all sit silently, until Asai himself appears, walking briskly across the platform to his chair, front and center. He says not a word and sits down. Moments later, one of the men onstage stands up, removes his jacket and walks forward. His legs positioned in a kendo stance, he whisks out a golden fan emblazoned with the red circle of the Japanese flag. He briskly...