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Article: Henry Wade, attorney in fabled abortion rights case, dies at 86
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- March 2, 2001
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Henry Wade, the Texas prosecutor whose 36-year tenure as Dallas County district attorney placed him in the national spotlight during two historic moments -- he was the Wade in the landmark abortion ruling Roe vs. Wade and prosecuted Jack Ruby -- has died.
Wade died in Dallas on Thursday of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 86.
He was a law-and-order icon in Texas who never lost a case he prosecuted. He sought the death penalty 30 times and got it 29 times. His office reported conviction rates greater than 90 percent. Beleaguered attorneys banded together in a 7 Percent Club, an acknowledgment of their unimpressive ...