The Washington Post, February 23rd, 1993
In the New Yorker of Feb. 22, Marshall Frady writes about Rickey Ray Rector, who was executed in Arkansas last year after Bill Clinton turned him down for clemency. Although the law did not require his presence in the state, Clinton interrupted his New Hampshire primary campaign and flew home. Why he did so is not clear. Maybe he felt a personal obligation to be on hand. Maybe he wanted to prove that he was tough on crime. The saga of Clinton and Rector is replete with those sorts of ambiguities. Rector himself was one. He had killed two men (one a cop) in 1981 and then turned the gun on hims...
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