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This Friday, a federal court in San Francisco will decide whether KQED, a public television station in California, has the right to film the gas-chamber execution of Robert Alton Harris, a career criminal convicted of murdering two teenage boys 12 years ago. Harris will be the first inmate executed...
I also wonder what kind of effect seeing a man die would have on my views on the death penalty. I'm not usually one to waffle about my opinions, but to be honest, capital punishment is a toughie. I know all the questions--the deterrence arguments, the racial bias...
Although she claims to have been misquoted, in 1986 she embarrassed the then banned African National Congress with a speech encouraging blacks to seek freedom "with our boxes of matches and our necklaces" -- a reference to a grisly form of execution carried out by lighting gasoline-filled tires around the...
Despite flaws in concept and execution, West Side Story is enjoyable to watch. A capable, energetic cast; Bernstein and Sondheim's classic songs; and excellent production values make this show worth seeing. In the end, audience members will have to decide for themselves whether Eggar should have retold West Side...
The execution was helped right along by senior wing Steve Cohn's two tries. Scrum half Andy Howard and prop Chris Geary each scored one more point than the entire Northeastern team did with its solitary tallies.