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Last Monday, troubled by the fact that so many people on death row in his state had been proven innocent, Illinois Gov. George Ryan issued a moratorium on executions. Though commendable, this action presupposes that capital punishment is a method we ought to use, that perhaps, if we could change the way it is administered, it would be a desirable method of crime control. However, it is not the potential for racial bias or the risk that people on death row may actually be innocent that makes capital punishment a less than ideal method of crime prevention...
...same month, MIT announced a joint venture with Microsoft called I-Campus intended to improve the use of computing technologies on university campuses...
...with its miniscule monitor and limited memory, could do little more than run programs like "Oregon Trail" and "LOGO." But even a child could learn to use it--and Alpert...
...when the Justices issued a stay of execution and agreed to consider the inmate's claim that Alabama's primary mode of execution - the electric chair - violates his Eighth Amendment rights, which protect him against cruel and unusual punishment. Alabama, Nebraska and Georgia are the only remaining states to use the electric chair exclusively, and have faced a growing tide of criticism in recent years after several botched executions, which resulted in more blood and highly visible pain than anyone was prepared for. Alabama officials responded to Tarver's pleas, according to the Associated Press, saying "death in the chair...
...Court was poised several months ago to examine a similar case in Florida, until the state rendered the arguments moot by replacing electrocution with the more popular (and, its supporters argue, more "humane") lethal injection as its chief method of execution. Tarver's lawyers are hoping Alabama won't use the same strategy to expedite their client's execution; they maintain Tarver, who is black, was denied a jury of his peers. Eleven of the jurors who convicted him were white, and one was black...