Murder, They Advertised  Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon
speaks out against Benetton's "We, on Death Row" ad supplement
featuring Missouri inmates; plus, other St. Louis follies and
foibles  This is a match made somewhere other than heaven,
having those wacky image-makers at Benetton in a tiff with
political animal/media hound Jay Nixon, attorney general of
Missouri. Too bad the topic is life and death and not something
slightly less important -- then the spat might be truly funny.
Murder has a way of being a downer.  Benetton is the Italian
fashion giant known for putting startling images on billboards,
in magazine ads and in glossy ad supplements. Examples include a
1989 photo of a black woman breastfeeding a white infant, a 1991
shot of a priest and a nun kissing and a 1994 faces-of-AIDS
campaign. During the World Cup, a Benetton ad featured two
soccer balls in a condom as part of the company's ongoing "AIDS-
Safer Sex" campaign. One ad, relating to race, showed three
virtually identical human hearts, s