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...only not a perfect system, the death penalty accomplishes nothing," says Rob Warden, who heads up the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University's Law School. "Quite the contrary. It doesn't deter crime, and it's very costly. Not just financially, but socially. We have some evidence in all of the cases where people are currently on death row in this state that the defendants were mentally ill - psychologically, if not legally - and there will be so many appeals and years will pass before these are resolved that couldn't, actually couldn't, see an execution in this...
...Both the Warden of Rhodes House and I try to impress upon new Rhodes Scholars that things in Oxford are therefore likely to be very different from what they were accustomed to as American undergraduates. They are going to need to understand how others from other cultures think and behave and they need to be able to adapt to those differences. The marked differences between, say, Harvard and Oxford, usually prove to be a source of extraordinary benefit and considerable joy, but not for everyone, especially if one matriculates at Oxford with false expectations or for the wrong reasons...
...life in prison in 1985. While German lifers, on average, become eligible for parole after 17 years, the judge ordered Mohnhaupt and Klar to serve at least 24 and 26 years respectively, in light of their "particularly heavy guilt." Mohnhaupt may be paroled next month, and her prison warden said her psychological assessment showed no risk of "backsliding." Klar is not eligible for parole until 2009, but he has appealed for early release. "Of course, I have to acknowledge my guilt," he wrote in that 2003 request. "I understand the feelings of the victims and I regret the suffering...
DIED. Jack Warden, 85, prizefighter turned tough guy of stage and screen who appeared in nearly 100 films over five decades, including 12 Angry Men, All the President's Men and The Verdict, and won an Emmy for playing Chicago Bears coach George Halas in the TV movie Brian's Song; in New York City. An Army paratrooper in World War II, Warden fell in love with drama after a fellow soldier gave him a play to read. He moved to New York City after the war to take acting lessons and pursue a career that eventually...
Karl S. Gilje Chief of Police Warden, Wash...