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Last year, Dunne assembled a team of noted skiinstructors--including a former Olympic goldmedalist--in Utah to learn how to teach thevisually impaired to ski. Blindfolding theinstructors, Dunne had them led down the slope byan instructor who could see, to give them anappreciation for what it is like for the visuallyimpaired...
...being shot by a firing squad, by inhaling cyanide gas, by electrocution or -- the newest method and a dog's death in more ways than one -- by being administered poison through an intravenous drip. Unlike at the mall, though, there isn't much choice at the retail level. Only Utah (shooting or hanging) and Idaho (lethal injection or firing squad) offer the customer a limited say in how he (death row's population is 98.5% male) goes...
...Democrats joined the unanimous Republicans to defeat a motion that would have challenged the subpoena in court. A motion to turn over the records was then passed by a vote of 347-64. "We don't want a cover-up," said Republican James V. Hansen of Utah. "We want to get this behind us." The Democrats could hardly disagree...
...jury convicted three men of knifing a Utah tourist to death in a New York City subway station. The 1990 murder of young Brian Watkins became a painful symbol of random urban violence. Watkins died attempting to protect his family from robbers...
...citizens, and one of them is Wilson, who was mayor of San Diego at the time of the Harris murders as well as an outspoken supporter of limits on appeals. Since the Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, only five non-Southern states (Illinois, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Indiana) have executed prisoners. Many opponents are now worried that California could open the way to more. But few legal experts expect a surge of executions because of the arduous appeals process that is automatically launched in every capital case. Even in California, experts say, most of the appeals...