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...stirring up debate, McVeigh gives the abolitionists another chance to make their case by reminding people how little he has in common with the vast majority of death-row inmates. Where McVeigh is an unrepentant, white mass murderer who planned carefully, killed wantonly, worked to cover his tracks and enjoyed a competent, $10 million defense, most death-row inmates are poor people, disproportionately black or Latino, often retarded or abused as children, and are represented by court-appointed greenhorns and burnouts better suited to traffic court--or, in their appeal stage, by no one at all. And where the case...
McVeigh's case is just so clean. "The danger is [when] somebody says, 'If ever there was a case for the death penalty, this is the case,'" says Bright. "The problem is that we never limit it to that case. We have more than 3,000 people on death row, many without lawyers, and the overwhelming majority are not the Timothy McVeighs or Ted Bundys or John Wayne Gacys." Simply put, the most powerful argument against the death penalty is that it is dispensed by a justice system that favors some defendants over others. In February, the American Bar Association...
...capital punishment or rarely use the laws on their books, in the South putting people to death has become a part of life. That is especially true in Texas, which has had 127 executions since 1976, almost a third of the national total. Today 448 people wait on death row in Texas. "If they keep going at the rate they're going," says Stephen Bright, "it won't be long before Texas will have executed more people than all the rest of the states put together. They execute so many people that nobody pays any attention...
Cabot House has won the Straus Cup, awarded to the most successful intramural program, three years in a row, and the last two weren't even close...
Freshman Joe Killar earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors, marking the third year in a row that a Crimson wrestler has won the award. Killar also placed sixth in the EIWA Championships in the 150-pound weight class and was named to the All-Ivy team...