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- <text id=89TT1896>
- <title>
- July 24, 1989: Reprieved:Paula Cooper
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 24, 1989 Fateful Voyage:The Exxon Valdez
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 49
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- <p> REPRIEVED. Paula Cooper, 19, whose death sentence for a
- murder she committed at 15 hurled her into the midst of an
- international controversy; in Indianapolis. Citing a 1988 U.S.
- Supreme Court decision barring executions of killers who were
- under 16 at the time of the crime, the Indiana Supreme Court
- decreed that Cooper could not be put to death for the 1985
- killing of an elderly Bible teacher. Pope John Paul II was among
- those who had sought clemency for her. Cooper now must complete
- a minimum of 30 years in prison.
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- </body></article>
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