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Although he disagrees with Toomey on the death penalty, State Rep. Alvin E. Thompson (D-Cambridge) is no stranger to victims of violent crime. Three years ago, one of his relatives was murdered, shot to death during a Cambridge basketball game. Now Thompson, a part-time security guard at Harvard, is one of the strongest local opponents of the death penalty...
...Thompson said he could not support the law. "The bill was dealing with juveniles, kids 14 to 15 years old," he said. "I've always thought that you need to retrain or counsel them. To me, there's no person who can't be rehabilitated...
...Thompson said he sympathizes with the Curley family, but that retribution cannot be a driving force behind a bill that would have imposed the death penalty for juveniles...
...both sides the families lose," he said. Although Thompson said he does not question the "atrocity" of violent crimes committed in the state, he said the onus of punishment should be on the administration and on the prison system--not the legislature...
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon late yesterday warned that Saddam Hussein had been moving his missiles around and contravening U.N. resolutions, despite the apparent movement towards a diplomatic solution of the Iraq crisis. But TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says the Iraqi moves are business as usual: ?It?s been happening for a couple of weeks. He regularly moves his missiles, in violation of cease-fire but the Pentagon usually maintains it?s not enough to warrant a response,? Thompson explained. ?It?s probably making the news now because everyone?s paying more attention to Iraq...