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The legislators have been successful. Last week when the Justices declined by a 6-to-3 vote to hear Brooks' appeal, they once again okayed capital-punishment procedures, at least implicitly. In Texas, 171 inmates await execution. One of them, Jeffrey Lee Griffin, 27, said death row was dismayed...
Last week's execution in Huntsville surprised knowledgeable lawyers as well. Brooks' grounds for appeal seemed as strong as those in hundreds of other cases that are pending. According to University of Texas Law Professor Hugh Lowe, who worked on Brooks' behalf, the perfunctory judicial refusal to...
Will scores of the condemned die soon? Advocates on both sides of the issue mostly agree that no reign of terror is imminent; there might be several more executions next year but not several dozen. Notes Lawyer David Kendall, who represents death-row inmates: "People have said the floodgates would...
...each of his arms. Into the left (on which Brooks had a tattoo reading I WAS BORN TO DIE) would come the drugs; the right catheter was a standby. Extending from each needle was a length of clear plastic tubing that ran through a plywood slat to the executioner's room next door, and there into a standard hospital bag of saline solution...
Two matters of the heart fill the news these weeks, both firsts and quickly related. In Utah, Dr. Barney Clark was fitted for an artificial heart, and in Texas, the heart of Charles Brooks Jr. was stopped by doses of sodium thiopental, pavulon and potassium chloride administered by the department...