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...trial, and local merchants say the combination of trial and talk-show retinues could bring more than $250,000 into local hotels, restaurants and shops. Until now, one of the most popular reasons to visit Amarillo, where a feedlot-slaughterhouse is the single biggest employer, was the Big Texan restaurant, where the 72-oz. steak is free for anyone who can polish it off in one hour...
...Dead Woman Walking Karla Faye Tucker, the born-again Texan killer, has had her appeal for clemency denied ? and little now stands between her and her execution tomorrow...
AUSTIN: Only one man can delay Karla Faye Tucker's deadly date with the needle: Texas Governor George W. Bush. But he's running out of time. With hours left before the born-again killer's 7pm EST lethal injection, the Supreme Court turned down her appeal against the Texan clemency system. Will Bush, a contender for the GOP presidential nomination, step in at the last minute? Unlikely: All he has to offer is a 30-day stay of execution, an option his administration has already recommended against. No political gain is seen in merely prolonging her suffering...
...again killer's request for clemency Monday morning. She'll be the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1984 (indeed, since Tucker herself was convicted for her 1983 crimes) and the first in the Lone Star state since Chipita Rodriguez back in 1863. Given more recent Texan history, the decision was no suprise: The board has unanimously rejected 16 similar requests in the past year alone...
...still huffing and puffing about Thursday. The only question now is what other conditions will be inked into the deal: Will Texas, like Florida, ban all cigarette billboard advertising? Will the Marlboro Man and the Lone Star state part company after all these years? Click back for details, as Texan Attorney General Dan Morales unveils the cigarette pact later today...