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Nearly eleven years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, provided that it not be applied arbitrarily and capriciously. Today 37 states have death-penalty laws, and since 1976, 69 condemned men and one woman have been electrocuted, gassed, shot or given lethal injections. With almost 1,900...
To make matters worse for opponents of the death penalty, just one day before the McCleskey ruling the court significantly restricted an earlier decision that had blocked the execution of certain defendants convicted under "felony murder" laws. Those laws, on the books in most states, allow murder convictions against defendants...
Although grumbling about the quarter-century delay, the Soviets, who annexed Estonia during the war, nevertheless complimented the U.S. for finally deporting the immigrant. Moscow officials left little doubt about his future. Soviet Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said Linnas could appeal for a pardon, but that any delay in the execution...
On Monday, the United States put the former U.N. secretary general on its watch list of undesirable aliens barred from entering the United States. The Justice Department cited evidence that he aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others.
But despite the perceived emergency, the report concludes that Cornell "can become virtually overnight a major force in affirmative action policy formation and execution in higher education."