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July/August 2003 Issue
July/August 2003 Cover
“Headlines Over the Horizon”; Robert D. Kaplan, “Supremacy by Stealth”; Alan Berlow, “The Texas Clemency Memos”; Adam Bellow, “In Praise of Nepotism”; Seth Gitell, “'The Democratic Party Suicide Bill'”; Christopher Hitchens, “Thinking Like an Apparatchik”; David Quammen, “The Bear Slayer”; fiction by Garrison Keillor; and much more. View Magazine
  • 77 North Washington Street
  • In Praise of Nepotism
    Adam Bellow
  • Execution Summaries
  • The Texas Clemency Memos
    Alan Berlow
  • The Transformer
    David Brooks
  • The Poetry of Heartbreak
    Peter Davison
Politics

Execution Summaries

Copies of three death-penalty memoranda prepared by Alberto R. Gonzales for Texas Governor George W. Bush

July/August 2003 Issue
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Gardner memorandum

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Stoker memorandum

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Washington memorandum

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