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There were many issues on which Ashcroft could have picked to challenge White, but his choice of the death penalty was especially astute given the state of Missouri politics. Gov. Carnahan is no softie on crime; his administration presided over more executions than any in recent memory. Yet in January, at the personal request of Pope John Paul II, Carnahan agreed to commute to life in prison the sentence of murderer Darrell Mease, whose execution was to be during the Pope's visit to St. Louis...
Ashcroft's campaign against Judge White-- and whatever success it may bring to his campaign against Carnahan in 2000--sends the message to all state judges that if they want to get on the federal bench, they'd better start upholding some death penalties. When a case is hard, as Judge White found Missouri v. Johnson, and when the defendant's right to a new trial is unclear, how will those judges decide? The perverse political incentives make it seem inevitable that a defendant who may not deserve the death penalty will some day receive it because the judges...
Champion spokesperson Peggy C. Carter last week said she could not confirm whether the T-shirt came from the plant in Chihuahua, Mexico--a Mexican state located close to the Texas border--or even whether there is a factory in Chihuahua...
...conditions are extremely, extremely nice," Correa says. "Especially in this state of Chihuahua...
Havana and Washington got their first glimpse Tuesday of what a post-embargo Cuba may look like. Fidel Castro donned a business suit to revel in the presence of the heads of state of Spain, Portugal and 14 Latin American countries at an Ibero-American summit on the once-isolated island. But many of his guests pointedly chastised the Cuban leader over human rights, and held meetings with the dissidents Castro had tried to keep under the carpet. In spite of that, the summit was clearly a diplomatic triumph for the aging Cuban strongman, because it represented an explicit repudiation...