1.   A successful capital prosecution can make a prosecutor feel powerful, popular and righteous all at the same time.

2.   Judge Luttig closely observed and may even have participated in the case against Beazley, whose co-defendants agreed to plea bargains, testified against him and escaped capital prosecution.

3.   One effect of a capital prosecution will most likely be to force two separate trials before Judge Leonard B. Sand in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

4.   She said she hoped the measure would not hurt capital prosecutions.

5.   The cost of capital murder prosecutions can vary.

6.   The most common result is that the government discontinues capital prosecution when the defendant enters a plea bargain.

7.   Thursday, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau pointedly tried to lower expectations when asked about the likelihood of a capital prosecution in the jogger case.