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>>Good stuff on Reno. This lady is out of control and very evil!
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>>Darren
>> [The Washington Times] [Investigative]
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>> Published in Washington, D.C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5am --
>> June 16, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.washtimes.com
>> [(see thetext links at the bottom of the page)]
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>> [Image] Reno seeking more executions among white U.S.
>> [Image] defendants
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>> [Image] By Frank J. Murray
>> [Image] THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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>> [T] he Clinton administration's pursuit of
>> racial diversity now includes making
>> federal death row "look more like America."
>> Attorney General Janet Reno's little-known
>> affirmative action plan aims to end any
>> appearance of race bias in punishing the
>> cruelest federal criminals.
>> . . . . Since imposing a policy whose stated
>> purpose is nationwide "consistency and
>> fairness," Miss Reno has tripled the rate at
>> which whites charged with federal crimes were
>> targeted for execution.
>> . . . . Changes Miss Reno made since a Jan. 27,
>> 1995, directive to U.S. attorneys include:
>>
>> * Taking out of prosecutors' hands entirely
>> the decision on whether to request the
>> death penalty at each trial, without
>> regard to whether a prosecutor favors or
>> opposes execution in that case. Until then
>> any prosecutor could veto asking for a
>> death sentence but needed approval to seek
>> execution.
>> * Ordering her "death penalty committees" to
>> consider statistical evidence of past
>> "racial discrimination" in administering
>> the federal death penalty.
>> * Requiring prosecutors to check off the
>> race of defendants and victims -- "white,
>> black, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native
>> American, Alaska Native, Aleut" -- and
>> confirm separately if either is Hispanic.
>> Those data, on the form referring death
>> cases for her decision, are earmarked for
>> the Office of Policy and Legislation.
>>
>> . . . . Miss Reno promulgated the new plan even
>> though Federal Bureau of Prisons statistics
>> show that the last 34 prisoners put to death by
>> the federal government between 1927 and 1963
>> included 27 whites, three blacks, two Indians,
>> one Mexican and one whose ethnic and racial
>> background are unknown.
>> . . . . Far and away, most of the more than
>> 3,000 convicts awaiting execution in America
>> are state prisoners unaffected by Miss Reno's
>> policies, which relate only to people charged
>> with federal crimes.
>> . . . . Asked how racial statistics ever are
>> relevant to a defendant, Justice Department
>> spokesman Joseph Krovisky said lawyers can
>> present any information they want. "We'll
>> listen to anything they may present to us, and
>> we will evaluate it, but that doesn't
>> necessarily mean we'll accept it," he said.
>> . . . . Legal analysts for and against capital
>> punishment see the possibility that recent
>> death sentences could be upset by policies that
>> responded to what Timothy McVeigh's attorney,
>> Stephen Jones, calls a "thunderstorm of
>> controversy" in Congress.
>> . . . . They include Vivian Berger, assistant
>> dean of Columbia University law school and
>> longtime general counsel to the American Civil
>> Liberties Union.
>> . . . . She doubts the federal government would
>> apply racial factors to decide whom to execute
>> but said a process becomes questionable when it
>> goes beyond collecting statistics to spotlight
>> systemic bias.
>> . . . . "I think this is meant to benefit a
>> particular defendant, not what I was
>> speculating would be the horrible result of
>> some Justice Department functionary saying,
>> 'Now we should prosecute some white defendant
>> capitally because we haven't done any whites
>> lately,'" Miss Berger said in an interview from
>> Santa Fe, N.M.
>> . . . . "It seems to me to be an invitation to
>> do exactly the thing you're told you can't do
>> -- consider race when you decide whether to
>> seek the death penalty or not," said an
>> assistant state attorney general with long
>> experience in getting killers executed.
>> . . . . The official said the process gives
>> Miss Reno information local prosecutors always
>> have.
>> . . . . "It's certainly problematical at best,
>> and it's certainly an area of the law where
>> anything and everything is going to get jumped
>> on," the assistant attorney general said,
>> calling any explicit mention of race tough to
>> explain in court.
>> . . . . "It is a fair question why the racial
>> data should be gathered concurrently with the
>> case information," said David Bruck, a director
>> of the federally financed Death Penalty
>> Resource Council.
>> . . . . "At the least it does require a U.S.
>> attorney to consider the race of victims and
>> defendants when he or she is considering a
>> recommendation on death. It bears looking at,"
>> he said.
>> . . . . The "thunderstorm," mentioned by Mr.
>> Jones in seeking dismissal of McVeigh's
>> indictment, blew up in mid-1994 during debate
>> over the Racial Justice Act, a failed attempt
>> to racially balance execution rates.
>> . . . . Where state courts had discriminated on
>> the basis of victims' race, the committee said,
>> the federal disparity was founded on
>> defendants' race.
>> . . . . From the time the modern federal death
>> penalty was authorized in 1988 until those
>> congressional hearings six years later, four
>> capital prosecutions of whites were included in
>> 37 cases (11 percent).
>> . . . . "If some redneck county in Texas had
>> come up with figures like that, you'd have been
>> down there wanting to know why," Rep. Craig
>> Washington, Texas Democrat, lectured the
>> Clinton Justice Department in 1994.
>> . . . . The best outside estimate of actions
>> since the attorney general imposed her new
>> policies under congressional fire in January
>> 1995 is that 17 whites were included among 55
>> capital defendants (31 percent), according to
>> data from Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty
>> Information Center.
>> . . . . The Justice Department would not
>> furnish data on the point, even though a stated
>> purpose is to give such data to the media. No
>> figures were available on how often the death
>> sentence was waived under the balancing
>> considerations.
>> . . . . Among those sentenced to die by
>> civilian federal courts since 1988, blacks
>> dominate. One of the 12 civilians awaiting
>> execution for federal crimes as of Friday is
>> white. Nine are black, one is Asian and one is
>> Hispanic.
>> . . . . In the 1987 Warren McCleskey case from
>> Georgia, the Supreme Court banned applying
>> statistics on racial distribution in death
>> penalty cases to any one prisoner.
>>
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