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...Graham, looking haggard, stayed in Tallahassee, avoiding anti-death penalty protesters who blocked his outer office at the state capitol and who kept vigil at the front gate of his mansion, chanting "Bloody Bob! Bloody Bob!" Graham supports capital punishment as a deterrent, maintaining that it is "not inconsistent with Christian values." Said he, while signing the death warrants...
...death penalty in only these three states, the capital punishment laws of 31 others are still in dispute. The court has struck down laws that rigidly apply the death sentence for specific offenses. Instead, it has approved only those statutes under which judges or juries get adequate information about each individual and his offense to use in making the life-or-death sentence decision. "The mood around here is pessimistic determination," says David Ken dall, who supervises the L.D.F. battle, "but we'll go on defending our indi gent clients as long as we can." The anti-death lawyers...
...this week's election, did California ask its voters for their opinion on capital punishment? In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court decision was not all that clear. Each of the nine Justices was moved to write his own opinion, and at least two Justices based their anti-death decision on the "arbitrary" and "freakish" choice of those on whom the penalty has been imposed. For those who still support capital punishment, that observation suggested that it might yet be revived. The problem, explains Oklahoma Attorney General Larry Derryberry, is "how to write a law the U.S. Supreme Court will...
After a decade writing what he calls "the more or less straight novel," Kingsley Amis migrated a few years ago toward science fiction (The Anti-Death League) and the James Bond spy thriller (Colonel Sun), written under the pseudonym of Robert Markham. Now, in The Green Man, he has drifted into the ghost story. What is Amis...
...ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. The nervous neutralism of the cold war provides Amis with a theme for this slightly outrageous suspense story...