He shows me extraordinarily lifelike clay models of leading figures from the cold war, such as Stalin, Gorbachev, Thatcher and Reagan; a graphic novel of the second world war; a diary of the Black Death; 3D representations of chemical reactions.
ELISABETH SEMEL Washington, May 15, 2000 The writer is director of the American Bar Association's Death Penalty Representation Project.
LAWRENCE J. FOX Washington, June 2, 2000 The writer is chairman of the American Bar Association's Death Penalty Representation Project.
But not many other states have followed suit, said Robin Maher, director of the American Bar Association's Death Penalty Representation Project.
Elizabeth Semel, director of the death penalty representation project of the American Bar Association, emphasized that the "devil is in the details" of the proposals emerging for extending DNA appeals.
"Alabama is our top priority," said Elisabeth Semel, who as head of the American Bar Association's death penalty representation project in Washington recruits law firms across the country to handle cases pro bono.
Elisabeth Semel, who directs the American Bar Association's Death Penalty Representation Project, finances two lawyers for the nonprofit Texas Defender Service, but she said that her effort cannot begin to make up for the loss of the resource center.
"You're in crisis mode all the time," said Ms. Semel, who was at her desk in her office on Capitol Hill, talking between phone calls, existing, it seemed, on mineral water, lattes and passion for her work as the director of the American Bar Association's Death Penalty Representation Project.
Bush's target was the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, a government agency established in the mid '80s to give defendants on death row legal representation in their appeals.
Many have been saved from the gallows by the efforts of London lawyers who believe that, given what one Law Lord has described as the "uniquely irreversible" nature of the death penalty, legal representation should be provided for no fee pro bono publico.Michael SLondonThe RockSIR--The rec ent Spanish proposals for joint sovereignty over Gibraltar are nothing new (February 15th).
