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...official at the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated last summer that executions will be stepped up in the next two years, and may approach the frequency of the Depression era, when there were three executions a week. Any attempt to stop the spate of killings must begin quickly. Public debate has nearly ended—the Times buried Brooks’ execution on page 28. Unless those with an interest in justice step forward soon, we will see the issue turned over to people like the pro-execution demonstrators outside the prison in Huntsville. They posed for the cameras with...
...great deal of planning needs to be done before the planned summer renovations can be initiated and completed on schedule,” he said then. “I should know more in two weeks—in fact, if I don’t, nothing’s going to happen here...
...battle brewed between the Harvard Law School administration and leaders of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) in the spring and summer of 1982. The two sides had debated their convictions at numerous meetings, and by the close of the year, the lines were drawn...
...remembers returning to an uneasy campus in the fall as a second-year law student. He says that his white classmates were at first “hostile” towards their efforts, and other black students were taken aback by the firestorm sparked by Vorenberg’s summer letter and its coverage in the national media...
...meeting only went downhill from there, with committee co-chair Alexis Herman pounding the gavel in a vain attempt to restore order and Harold Ickes, a senior Clinton advisor and member of the committee, claiming the panel was "hijacking" democracy and threatening to appeal the ruling well into the summer...