Word: die
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...also likely to shape voters' perceptions. After presiding over 131 executions--about one-fifth of all the executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976--Bush for the first time issued a 30-day stay of execution. The lucky man: Ricky Nolen McGinn, who had been sentenced to die for the 1993 rape and murder of his 12-year-old stepdaughter. Some may see Bush's move as the best evidence that he too will do whatever it takes to get elected, others as a sign the Texas Governor puts the compassionate into "compassionate conservatism...
...military speech and then called Wilson back. He would probably recommend a reprieve. The word soon went out to reporters. Message: I care. McGinn, who has long insisted he is innocent of both crimes, was pulled away from the execution chamber half an hour before he was scheduled to die and not too long after he'd eaten what he thought was his last meal: a double cheeseburger and a Dr Pepper...
...days is thick with ghosts. At the family getaway in Kennebunkport to attend a surprise birthday fete for mom Barbara and work on his convention speech with some advisers, Bush found himself standing at the front door and telling reporters - one more time - that those 131 people deserved to die. The Texas criminal justice system in which Bush is the last link "adequately answered innocence or guilt" in the death row cases on his watch, Bush insisted again Sunday. But the reporters are digging, and the corpses they find are telling a different tale...
Most seniors are looking forward to getting as far away from Cambridge as possible after today, but a few die-hard Harvardians are moving on to bigger and better things within the University's own hallowed halls...
July 1997 Two Harvard students, Deshaun R. Hill '99 and Harvard C. Nabrit Stephens '99, die in a car crash in Monterey County, Calif...