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As one faculty member wrote me, "none of us do enough for social justice." I couldn't agree more. So let us all proceed towards that goal and not dissipate our energies over argument about past mistakes in the execution of collective effort towards this end. Eillet Ferbee Professor of...
In Algeria last week Hocine Ait Ahmed and an officer named Si Moussa sat in prison cells awaiting execution. Their four-day trial had taken place before a three-man "revolutionary criminal court." Ait Ahmed, 39, a French-trained lawyer, was captured last October after leading an underground movement aimed...
Ait Ahmed, well aware that nothing could save him except Ben Bella's whim, announced that he would carry on his defense alone. When he was finished, the three-man tribunal got on the phone to Ben Bella and then announced the death penalty. For 48 hours after the...
The cause is steadily gaining converts among U.S. Governors, such as Tennes see's Frank G. Clement, whose recent plea for abolition ("Thou shalt not kill") lost by only one vote in the state legislature. Hurrying to Death Row, Clement immediately commuted the sentences of five condemned Negroes to...
Abolitionists claim that the shift in public opinion ironically puts accused murderers in double trouble by creating "hanging juries." By rejecting jurors who oppose execution, says University of Texas Law Professor Walter E. Oberer, prosecutors get jurors "who not only condone capital punishment, but believe in it." Abolitionists also argue...