Janet Reno's roughest patch
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US attorney-general, Janet Reno, has faced calls for her resignation on three occasions over a two-year period. There have been questions about the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas, which have led to the most recent call. The attorney general has to serve both the law and the US president. There may be a cinflict between the two, which can be resolved by the attorney general resigning in the hope that the president will have to obey the law due to public pressure. Legal processes cannot resolve political issues, which is one of the problems that Reno faces.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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The price of justice
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A Brazilian judge has been murdered after exposing corruption in the Brazilian judiciary. Leopoldo Marques do Amaral was found shot dead in Paraguay, and his murder has led to reform of the judiciary being seen as a matter of urgency. He claimed that judges had received bribes from drug traffickers seeking lower sentences. Corruption allegations and nepotism are to be investigated, but there is also a need to speed up dealing with cases. Appeals are often lodged in order to delay debt payments, and this exacerbates the problem of legal delays.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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Down with the death penalty
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Countries which use the death penalty tend not to have an independent legal system, and tend to be authoritarian, except for the US. The death penalty is seen as a deterrent, a punishment, and prevents murderers from committing crimes again. It is unclear that murderers are the kind of people who assess consequences, and the US has a higher murder rate than countries with no death penalty. Imprisonment can prevent repeat offending. There is also a danger that innocent people could be killed.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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