David Ellis
IT’S HARD TO FIND A better reference than Mother Teresa, who has issued clemency appeals on behalf of both S&L swindler Charles Keating and murderer Robert Alton Harris. In a letter to Keating’s trial judge, Mother Teresa noted that the financier had donated $1 million to fight hunger, and she has publicized her objection to the death penalty in Harris’ case. But even a “living saint” can’t help lost causes: Keating drew 10 years in prison; Harris is to be executed this week.
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