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...with those words, Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, last week saved himself from the threat of execution. In a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, he accepted a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of appeal or release. Denied his belated request to defend himself in court, he abandoned his plan to argue that his 18-year killing spree--aimed mainly at those he considered technocrats, like computer scientists and business executives--was necessary to save an environment-despoiling America from itself. But he also gave up what some Justice Department officials and his victims feared was a chance that...
When Judge Burrell last Thursday morning denied Kaczynski's request to represent himself, the defendant could see that his lawyers would go ahead with their defense, one that portrayed him as mentally ill. And he wouldn't stand for that. He now wanted a deal...
...comes, will probably arrive before the new operating system does. First Jackson will hear from "special master" Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard law professor whose court-ordered study of Microsoft's business practices is due in May. Around the same time, of course, Microsoft's appeal (which includes a request to have Lessig removed from the case) reaches court, and Win98 hits software shelves near...
...Texas board of Pardons and Paroles rejected the born-again killer's request for clemency Monday morning. She'll be the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1984 (indeed, since Tucker herself was convicted for her 1983 crimes) and the first in the Lone Star state since Chipita Rodriguez back in 1863. Given more recent Texan history, the decision was no suprise: The board has unanimously rejected 16 similar requests in the past year alone...
...disappointment to Tucker's many defenders ? including no less a luminary than the Pope. The religious right, too, has largely adopted her cause, while The Rutherford Institute, the conservative group that bankrolls Paula Jones' sex suit, has taken time off from attacking President Clinton with a perverse request for him to step in and save Tucker. Whether it's the fact that the 38-year-old former prostitute has "found God," or simple squeamishness at executing a woman who looks like someone you'd sit next to in church, America clearly cares more about Tucker than the other 144 inmates...