| Show I ’y 8A Thursday July 5 2001 NationalWorld Standard-Examine- r Death penalty critics welcome O’Connor’s comments The Associated Press ! I 11 t r WASHINGTON - Critics of the way capital punishment is administered say that Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor helped their reform effort with her unexpected public skepticism on the issue O’Connor’s remarks this week resonated strongly with members of a national committee studying the death penalty composed of supporters and opponents who nonetheless believe it is administered unevenly The panel just last week recommended 18 reforms including new standards to ensure competent counsel for poor defendants and use of DNA testing when available “It’s extraordinary that she’s doing it because she has historically taken a strong position supporting the death penalty” said former federal prosecutor Beth Wilkinson who won the death sentence for executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh In an interview Wilkinson said of O’Connor: “She has the vantage point that almost none if us do” O’Connor on Monday said in a speech that “serious questions are being raised” about the administration of the death penalty and suggested that innocent people may have been put to death She noted that 90 death row inmates have been exonerated by new evidence since 1973 commenting “the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed” Despite supporting capital punishment in numerous rulings O’Connor is considered by many as a swing vote on the issue Wilkinson is a member of the nationwide death penalty panel of the Constitution Project a bipartisan education project based at Georgetown University Virginia Sloan executive director of the project said the recommendations last week had been sent to all Supreme Court justices but she does not know whether O’Connor was reacting to them Several former judges are on the panel along with defense lawyers prosecutors victim advocates and academics “She certainly has a lot of experience in hearing these FOOD cases” Sloan said “She has mentally retarded criminals decided a number of cases in Sen Patrick Leahy favor of the death D-- penalty and it’s quite significant that and chairman of the Senate she’s expressing these kinds Judiciary Committee said O’Connor “has been in a unique of concerns” position to monitor the states’ The court next fall will handling of death penalty hear arguments on two major cases Her observations are death penalty cases A Virgin- powerful and illuminating ia ' man is challenging his “The fact that the Court is death sentence on grounds watching this issue and is that his lawyer had formerly troubled by the numbers of worked for the murder vic- innocent people sent to death tim A man on death row in row should challenge the North Carolina wants the Congress to offer guidance” court to ban executions of said Leahy v recommendations y every Tuesday in the c Standard-Examine- Seaton Life r FABRIC & FACTORY LIQUIDATION DAS FINAL CLOSING AFTER 6’ EARS I Nil ED kb-- OTTONS FTS ELV V BRIDAL IN FABRIC ULTRASl'EDF Bt NlNLSN OFF FABRICS 50 IMPOR ( 30 MFRFS W OOLENS-CAS- l S OFF) NOTIONS BUTTONS INTERFACINGS LININGS UNIQUE IMPORTED BRADS St PFR YARD I IMITFD SELECTION OF FABRICS (a $3 S5 PER ART CLOTHING SAMPIES (EXCLl E SI UTM DESIGNS) SlTrS DRESSES BLOl SFS PANTS (SIZES COATS Vans Warped Tour s News recipes and ' FACTOR V ARY EQUIPMENT DRESS FORMS TABl C So many bands! 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