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...kicking some issues back to lawmakers, the Chief Justice has been willing to do some of his own legislating from the bench. A revealing case in point is his persistent effort to streamline capital punishment. For years Rehnquist urged Congress to pass a law that would prohibit death-row inmates from repeatedly filing so-called habeas corpus petitions requesting that their verdicts or sentences be reconsidered in court. Rehnquist complained that they needlessly dragged out death sentences and crowded the court with mostly frivolous petitions...
...legitimate habeas corpus petitions have been crucial to death-row inmates whose lawyers, many of them lacking experience in complex capital cases, often miss crucial issues at the trial level. Some 40% of all death sentences are overturned because a federal judge agrees there was some constitutional error in the verdict or sentence. Much of the legal profession was therefore pushing for a compromise that would reduce such petitions while guaranteeing that indigent Defendants could obtain more competent attorneys when they were tried for capital crimes...
Last week the Delta was drying out after the wettest April and May on record. The giant Deere tractors with their 12-row cultivators left tails of dust as they stirred the baking fields. Ed Scott of Minter City was up at 5 a.m. to tend his eight catfish ponds. If all goes well, the black entrepreneur this year will sell nearly half a million pounds of catfish, the Delta's second biggest crop after cotton. In Arcola, Billy Percy was in a battered pickup as crop dusters in their yellow Air Tractors swooped around him, spraying rice and cotton...
...hero's father, who takes his bitterness out on the woman he loves. Daddy has whupped Mama so many times that her insides are on the outside. She wears her bruises like a badge of the black woman's burden. In one devastating montage, Rich shows a series of row houses, apartment courtyards, projects. From inside each one a man yells at a woman, and something breaks. It is enough to drive a decent boy like Dennis to grand theft to get straight out of Brooklyn. At the end of Brooklyn, two major characters die, simultaneously though apart. No twist...
...cello like Lance Morrow," our former managing editor Henry Grunwald once remarked, and he wasn't talking about music. He was, instead, referring to the sonority and depth of tone in Morrow's prose. This week Morrow shows his virtuosic stamina by writing a second cover story in a row. His examination of the ethical dilemma over human transplants follows his exploration of evil last week. After finishing that piece late at night, Lance came perilously close to the subject matter of his story. He was bicycling home through Manhattan's Central Park. "I've taken the route so many...