William H. Pryor, Jr.
of Alabama was today nominated by the White House to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit. Maybe you would like to get to know him a little better.

• Testimony before the Alabama State Bar Board:"If your concern is to protect the innocent from being executed, then you need not worry; it is not occurring and is highly unlikely to occur. As Professor Paul Cassell of the University of Utah School of Law has stated, "The death penalty system in America is the most accurate criminal sanction in the world."
  


• From the ACLU Archives: "The American Civil Liberties Union today condemned Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor for bringing obscenity charges against the Barnes & Noble book chain over the sale of photography books by noted artists. An Alabama grand jury indicted the bookstore late Wednesday for selling Radiant Identities by Jock Sturges and Age of Innocence by David Hamilton, both targets of a national censorship campaign by conservative groups.
  "The books cited by Attorney General Pryor are highly acclaimed art collections which by no stretch of the imagination meet the standards of obscenity," said Olivia Turner, Executive Director of the ACLU of Alabama.


• From NARAL's election materials: "Abortion is murder, and Roe v.Wade is an abominable decision. As Professor Ely stated, Roe is not onstitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.' I support the right to life of every unborn child."
  


• General Pryor is a strong supporter of the actions of (From the Baptist World News) Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore who placed a 5,280-pound granite monument engraved with the Ten Commandments and other religious references placed in the rotunda of the building by state Supreme Court.