Republicans have so far managed to use procedural roadblocks to head off those measures -- but facedwith a U.S. death toll of more than 3, 600 and deep public opposition, several GOP senators have wavered in recent weeks.
In 1998, Hurst investigated the case of a woman from North Carolina named Terri Hinson, who was charged with setting a fire that killed her seventeen-month-old son, and faced the death penalty.