Dead Man Walking Trailer. Robert Austin Sullivan. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Before RONEY, TJOFLAT and FAY, Circuit Judges. FAY, Circuit Judge: Robert A. Word for Word - The Condemned - As Executions Mount, So Do Infamous Last Words. HARDLY a week goes by in the United States without, if not another execution, some new reflection of Americans' willingness to get tough on crime by putting killers to death: a Federal crime bill expanding the number of capital offenses; Gov.
Mario Cuomo of New York, the icon of American liberalism, tempering his opposition to the death penalty in a tough re-election campaign; Stephen G. Breyer, the Supreme Court nominee, being grilled by Senators before satisfying them of his acceptance of the constitutionality of executions.