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Friends expected Navy Lieut. (J.G.) Alton Lee Grizzard, 24, to be an admiral one day. Last week he was shot four times: once in each leg, once in the abdomen and, finally, once in the head. Classmates worshipped Ensign Kerryn O'Neill, 21, an honors student and a track star at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. She was found not far from Grizzard, curled in a fetal position. She had been shot at close range in the back of the head. Like Grizzard and O'Neill, Ensign George P. Smith, 24, was a midshipman at Annapolis...
...more it rains and the more it floods, the more I think God is trying to tell us something. Recently Missouri and Illinois have allowed riverboat gambling on the Mississippi River." -- Judy Martin, Alton, Illinois, resident, in a letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...judged as stand-alone crimes, but rather in the larger context of the possible failings of an individual's relationships with others and with society. And this phenomenon is not limited to criminals whose childhood is in the recent past; celebrated killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and Robert Alton Harris have details of their childhood splashed all over the headlines of the nation...
...program: from Buffalo, the Pro-Choicers meet the Pro-Lifers for another in-your-face metaphysical infuriator. And from San Quentin, Calif., after a 14-year legal preliminary, a night of ghastly last-minute appeals and strap-him-in-take-him- out action as double-murderer Robert Alton Harris flirts with cyanide and exhales death-row doggerel. (Close-up. Harris, macho-sardonic: "You can be a king or a street sweeper,/ But everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.") Back after this...
...LAST TIME A PRISONER DIED IN SAN QUENTIN'S gas chamber, Ronald Reagan was Governor of California. But Governor Pete Wilson's rejection of an appeal for clemency by Robert Alton Harris may end the long hiatus. Harris, 39, was convicted in 1979 of shooting two San Diego teenagers to death. Prosecutors told the jury that Harris taunted the victims before they died, laughed at them after he pulled the trigger, then calmly ate the hamburgers they had bought for lunch. Said Wilson: "The decision of the jury was correct...