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Show A4 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/NATION White House: answer,”Fleischer said. The plan being developed by No Easy Fixes a Cheney-led task force will re- For GasPrices wilderness. Aides said the plan may also advocate construction of new oil refineries and nuclear power plants, noting there have been nonebuilt for inore Continued from A-1 polluting, unsafe energy sources that we’ve been dependent on for decades.” “Conservation aloneis not the South Leads In Number of U.S. Executions @ Continued from A-1 clerk to death. The oldest was Anthony Antone, 66, electrocuted in Florida in 1984 for being the middleman who ar- ranged the murderof a private investigator. A closer look at someofthe executed andissues raised in their cases: raphy: States in the South have conducted 579 ofthe 711 executions overall. Texas alone accounts for 246, ofwhich 152 took place when President Bush was governor. Opponents say that whethercriminalslive or die shouldn’t be determined by where they live. Deathpenalty supporters say some of the most dramatic drops in murders in recent years have been in death-penalty states. @ Execution No. 706: On April 25, David Lee Goffbecame - new the call for oil oes ona small patch of the Alaskan trols, which administration construction. “Quick fixes don't work,” Fleischer said. Bush “wants to have a focus onthat whichis long-term, that will work.” The American Petroleum Institute said the higher prices the timeofthe crime, fivesetit at 17 and 15 set it at 18. Supporters of the juvenile death penalty say juvenile crime is was electrocuted in 1991 for the killing ofa white Atlanta police officer during a furniture store robbery. His lawyers argued worse in the United States than Georgia’s death penalty was in other countries and young killers seem particularly brutal. Critics say most young of- unconstitutional fenders haven't had time to “age out” of terrible childhoods. Execution No. 601: Dou- whites. The court said that than 20 years. The report will eschew “quick fixes” like price con- glas Christopher Thomas was Age: Seventeen ofthose executed since 1976 committed their crimes before they turned 18. Most othernations that use the death penalty bar the execution of juvenile offenders. Of the 38 states that authorize the death penalty, 18 have estab- lished 16. as the minimum ageat liningin Utah Prefer to Stay On Reservations @ Continued from A-1 and a professor of social work at the University of Utah. “The ones who stay home . their homesare there,” he their lives with good lawyers. Supporters counter that poor people are more apt to be exe- and35 percentblack, although whites make up 80 percent of appointed defense lawyers are the population-and blacks 12 percent. Death-penalty supporters say a disproportionate a fair match for government numberofblacks are executed blacks. The Supreme Court ruled in 1987 thatstatistics indicating a pattern ofracial bias in sentencing murderers was not enough to prove constitu- tional violations. @ Execution No. 155: It was in Warren McCleskey’s case that the Supreme Court made its 1987 ruling on racial bias. eee who was black, Despite relatively high unemployment, Indians living on reservations usually make do, relying on farming, a family member who is a migrant worker or federal programs, Edwardssaid. “I know a numberofIndians wholive in both areas. . . they go home onFri- day and come back on Monday to workorvice versa.” Edwards, himself a member of the California-based Yuroc Tribe, said he has a friend who lives on the Navajo reservation in Utah. “He’s got sheep and cattle But the economy is impor- said. “He’s alwayspoor, but he will leave if the economy gets rely on court-appointed lawyers. Death-penalty opponents cuted because they are more likely to commit certain capital crimes like robberies that involve homicide. Supporters also contend government- Race: Fifty-six percent of those executed have been white and animals. He doesa little work here and there, whenever he can, and somefarming,” he that bad.” approach will playpolitically. Incalling for construction of clude problems at refineries, switching from home heating hundreds of new power plants oil last week, Cheney said “conservation may be a sign of personal virtue,butit is not a sufficient basis all by itself — for a sound,comprehensive energy to gasoline, and lower imports. “It's a combination of forces,” API spokesman Juan Palomosaid. “Thefact is refineries are processing as much as they can.” Members of Congress are looking at various ways to Disputing that analysis, the Natural Resources Defense reported this week that energy has something to eat. So in a sense, they are unemployed, but they do some subsistence prosecutors. Execution No. 41: John Youngwas electrocuted in 1985 for killing three elderly people whowere beaten and kicked to death in Macon, Ga. Young’s appellate lawyers presented a sworn statement from his court-appointed trial lawyer stating that he had “spent hardly any time”preparing for the case because he was using drugs heavily and going through crisis after deciding to stop hiding his homosexuality. Still, the court of appeals hadlooked at the lawyer’s performance in thetrial itself and foundit “quite adequate.” “These were really hidden links, way deep down, and I suspect there are a lot more out there that people don’t ‘Associated Press file photo Six women and 705 men have been executed in the United States since it reinstated the know “These ago, compiling roll call of the dead that began when Gary Gilmore, shownin this 1976 photo, told a firing squad in Bria said. weren’t just home Force Maj. Sam Hudspath Utah,“Let’s do it.” said hackers hadn't tried to penetrate the military’s system but that computer secu- retardation in tests, according threat and were taking appro- to the Death Penalty Information Center, a groupcritical of how the death penalty is ad- priate precautions. rity officers were aware of the While Monday’s break-in was significant, Miller was equally alarmed by the growing numberoffailed hacking attempts on Utah’s system ministered. The Supreme Court in March agreed to consider in a case later this year whether the Constitution allows mentally retarded killers to be executed. Fourteenstates bar execution of the mentally retarded. @ Execution No. 378: Terry Washington was executed in 1987 robbery in Texas. His attorneys compared him toa 6-or struck sites in Australia, China, Ecuador, Egypt, Trinidad, type of farming. There’s a lot of sharing.” Housing and health-care are both traditional and mod- in this country because they costs in cities also are factors in deciding to remain on the reservation. American Indians who own homes on a reservation would be less likely to leave, Edwards said. Some of them, especially those in middie age, don’t have the skills to leave,he said. very attached to their tribe, ington as only mildly retarded claimed PoizonBOx originated in the United States. “We are obligated to strike back with utmostforce after such provocation by American hackers,” a group of Chinese hackers was quoted as saying in a May 1 Reuters newsreport. ern in their personality makeup,” Edwards said. “They’re ceremonies, customs, but are able to go into the city and work and survive in urban areas. Theycan play manyroles, they can find a comfort level in both.” experts, however, suspect the attacks are linked to the digital dogfight between China and the United States. Since the April 1 midair collision between an American spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet, the computer warfare has spread. Accordingto the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protec- Hackers using the phrase “PoizonBOx” previously did not deserve to die because of his mental retardation. Prosecutors described Wash- appear to be malicious and no permanent damage was re- ported,the scope ofthe attack won't be known for days, he said. “They could have planted some worm behind thefire wall.” Computer experts in Utah were following one lead that ‘suggested the hacking originated in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Miller said. Bria and other tion Center (NIPC), hacking activity against the United States was supposed to in- “The point is this thing spread and we're suddenly finding it everywhere.” 8-year-old and argued that he Because Monday's virus infected at least two different platforms, Nextel. and Microsoft, Bria said a sophisticated intruder was involved. And while the virus did not hackers broke through. “Anyone who says they can’t be hacked is a fool, but wehavea lot of safeguards in andstressed that he was able to hold a job andplan the crime. crease until Monday, the anniversary of the accidental bombingbythe United States of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Calling the intruders “malicious hackers,” federal officials said several U.S. sites already have beenunlawfully defaced, “replacing existing content with pro-Chinese or anti-U.S.rhetoric.” Anothervirus stalking the Internet, called “Lion,” was traced back to a Chinese email address, NIPC reported. Utah officials planned to work through Monday evening checking their system. “We wantto find what the vulnerability. was so this doesn’t happen again,”Miller said. gburton@sltrib.com Eye Disease? “It’s a double-edged sword,” Cuch said. “There's employment off the reservation, but the problemis,it’s usually for low-payingjobs. Another consideration would be what some American Indians see as a hostile environmentin cities — racism and discrimination,for instance. “Those Indians who have the mostsuccess are those who While anti-PoizonBOx forces appeared to be behind Monday’sattack in Utah,digital fingerprints left by the hackers could be designed to mislead. One obvious clue was an e-mail address made to lookas if it came from China. since April 27. Despite constant monitoring since then, place,”he said. May1997 for fatally stabbing a restaurant manager during a tion caused bythis disease? Wearecurrently conducting a Udy of an investigational eye drop for Dry Eye Disease. will be compensated. i 6 month documented history of Dry Eye Disease and are at yeas of age you may be eligible. Please Call:(801) 352-9228 Pewee Ttorine Fibroids? 801-352-9228 Physicians’ Research Options, LLC 10011 South Centennial Parkway, Suite 360 Ifyou have... Excessive bleeding during menstrual periods: Bleeding between periods. 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Web Attack Frank Bria, president of the Utah Web development company NextQuo. renewable said gasoline prices are rising Alarmed by @ Continued from A-1 —_a and the nation’s needs for new powerplants over 20 years. Michelle Robinson with the Union of Concerned Scientists Utah Officials tence was improper, and defendants mustprovebias specific to their own cases. say this leads to inequities that allow rich defendants to “buy” said. “Land is considered sacred. Their relatives are there, along with various kinds of ceremonies and traditional activities.” tant as well, Cuch said. “They power can meet 60 percent of leery of how the White House didn’t mean McCleskey’s sen- and was convicted of the 1990 shotgun murders as a juvenile. Imprisoned until age 21, she was already out when Thomas was executed in Virginia in January 2000. to death than those who kill of two other people. efficiency cluding Republicans who are it Poverty: Mostof those put to death are poor and have to robbery and attempted murder lor in 1990 andexecuted by injection. At the timeofthe kill- address higher prices now,in- market. The reasons for the latter, API officials said, in- was imposed disproportionately on blacks who killed parents because they tried to keep the couple apart. His 14year-old girlfriend was too young to be tried as an adult ing, Goff was on parole for the in Texas. Goff, 32, was convicted of killing a drug counse- because are due to continued high demand with less gasoline on the 17 whenheshothisgirlfriend’s because blacks are disproportionately convicted of murder, Critics contend that many of those whodie are targets ofracial prejudice. 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