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Robert Bloom, professor at Boston College?s law school, who declares no particular position on execution: I think this is just a chapter in an ever-expanding book of cases for death penalty opponents. Along with the chapter of how corruption affected convictions in Illinois and how defense lawyers were...
After months of anticipation, McVeigh?s execution has been delayed so that his defense team can examine an estimated 3,100 pages of documents discovered this week during an FBI archiving exercise. The documents were supposed to have been provided to the defense under a pre-trial agreement; Attorney General...
There are other, extraneous factors at work, too - $580 million in unpaid American dues to the U.N. is still locked up in Congress despite an agreement last year to pay up. And the impending execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh once again highlights a moral schism between the U.S...
If the inadvertent killing of civilians was a grim commonplace in Vietnam, deliberate execution was a step over the line, a criminal violation of the laws of war. Yet one member of Kerrey's squad says that is what the SEALs did that night. Gerhard Klann, the veteran among Kerrey...
Klann said he heard no incoming fire as the squad entered Thanh Phong. He said that when they failed to find the Viet Cong official, Kerrey ordered the SEALs to round up the unarmed women and children in the hooches. Then, Klann said, "an order was given" to shoot them...