Thanks Yoshie. Yeah, i see where it mentions Graham's bragging, but it
isn't the author stating that, it's the victim of his rape stating that he
had bragged about it to her. The article seemed to give pretty fair play
to the supporters of a new trial.
The momentum around the death penalty issue is amazing to me, something I
didn't think we were gonna see for a while. The focus, if the DP
Abolition goal is ever to be reached has to be on the use of the DP to
put to death people who would not be put to death if they had a decent
lawyer, or put more bluntly, if they were not poor. Thank God for the OJ
trial. The pundits keep on hoping that this issue doesn't become a
'campaign issue,' but it looks to be picking up steam despite their
wishes.
I knew we could have neo-liberalism and free trade with rogue states, gays
kissing on prime time TV,... but I didn't see how we could have that *and*
an end to the death penalty...Life in a world of globalized capitalist
relations only gets more and more interesting....
Steve
Stephen Philion
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Department of Sociology
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Stephen Philion writes:
>
> >I just went to the CNN cite and I didn't see anything that mentioned his
> >bragging about the murder. In fact the article was pretty sympathetic with
> >the argument that had this guy had an even half way alive lawyer he would
> >have been acquitted, forget a good lawyer. What website were you referring
> >to, sure it was CNN?
>
> I just visited CNN.com, and I think it's the following article that
> Michael was talking about:
>
> ***** Guilt of Texas inmate Gary Graham debated as execution draws near
> Protesters heckle Bush;
> crime victims talk of terror
>
> June 20, 2000
> Web posted at: 12:39 p.m. EDT (1639 GMT)
>
> <http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/06/20/condemned.man.02/index.html> *****
>
> Yoshie
>
>
