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...Abolish the Death Penalty, the state averaged nearly one lethal injection per week over a five month period in 2008. There have been 423 executions in Texas since the state reininstituted the death penalty in 1982, and 374 condemned men and women are currently residing on Texas' Death Row. (One resident, Michael Blair, walked off death row this year after being exonerated by DNA testing.) (See the Top 10 Unsolved Crimes...
...number of new residents appears to be slowing. "[In 2008] officials' zeal for executions was not matched by public desire for new death sentences, as evidenced by the continued steep decline in the number of new inmates arriving on death row," Houle says. Nowhere was that more apparent than in Houston, a city dubbed the "capital of capital punishment" in a study by the NAACP. After years of being a major contributor to Texas death row numbers, thanks in part to high profile "tough-on-crime" prosecutors, Houston juries sent no new prisoners to death row in 2008. The Harris...
...mount their comeback—it only made 62 percent of its free throw shots for the game—as the pure advantage in quantity proved to be enough to squeak by the hot-shooting Harvard team. Harvard freshman forward Peter Boehm, starting his second game in a row as classmate Keith Wright sits out with illness, led the long-distance charge, making seven out of his nine three-point attempts on his way to 23 points, a game high and a new career mark for him. His hot hand did not see many minutes in the second half...
...late evening outside the Taj Mahal hotel on Delhi's Mansingh Road, and the row of cars lining up for security checks at the entrance is fast lengthening into a small traffic jam. Coming just as the wedding and party season was starting up, the brutal Mumbai attacks last month (which devastated a more famous Taj Mahal hotel in that city) have led to heightened security measures, which are proving to be an enormous inconvenience for high society. Cars carrying designer-clad, bejeweled guests have to stop to let security guards peek under the hood and into the back compartment...
...comeback—it only made 62 percent of its free throw shots for the game—as the pure advantage in quantity proved to be enough to squeak by the hot-shooting Harvard team. Harvard freshman forward Peter Boehm—starting his second game in a row as classmate Keith Wright sits out due to an illness—led the long-distance charge, making 7-of-9 three-point attempts on his way to 23 points, a game high and a new career mark. His hot hand did not see many minutes in the second half...