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Dying inmates may be given leniency
By Los Angeles Times
Published: 10/15/2007

WASHINGTON, D.C. - By the summer of 2004, years of hard luck and hard living had caught up with Michael Paul Mahoney. He was in the very end stages of terminal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and his liver was shot from years of alcohol abuse.

He wanted to come home from prison to die. "My brother has had a pretty bad rap in life, and I am pleading for you to sign his release and let him come home to be with his family his last few weeks of life," his sister, Dixie Taylor, wrote to the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons in July 2004. Read more.

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