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Indeed, within a month of joining TIME in 1981, Andersen found himself writing about the execution of Steven Judy, who had killed a woman and her three children. Subsequent assignments included stories on John Hinckley, the would-be assassin of President Reagan, and last month's first execution by...
Andersen's most recent cover story was on prisons (TIME, Sept. 13). In preparation, he visited five jails around the country and absorbed "a palpable sense of the daily interminable monotony of living in prison, with the constant risk of being killed by fellow inmates." His assumptions about those...
Execution by injection may be too new to have its tough-guy slang like "fry." But last month outside the prison at Huntsville, Texas, the sentiment was the same. As Charlie Brooks waited to be injected, a crowd of 300 gathered to celebrate. Some of the pro-execution revelers, mostly...
In a sense, death's deterrent power has never really been given a chance in the U.S. Even during the comparative execution frenzy of the 1930s, hardly one in 50 murderers was put to death, a scant 2%. Reppetto estimates that if 25% of convicted killers were executed, 100...
Other campaign promises also will be difficult for Deukmejian to keep. He emphasized new efforts to combat crime, which will cost money. A champion of law-and-order, Deukmejian, as a member of the state legislature, helped restore the death penalty, although his bill to permit execution for armed robbery...