Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case,'" says Bright. "The problem is that we never limit it to that case. We have more than 3,000 people on death row, many without lawyers, and the overwhelming majority are not the Timothy McVeighs or Ted Bundys or John Wayne Gacys." Simply put, the most powerful argument against the death penalty is that it is dispensed by a justice system that favors some defendants over others. In February, the American Bar Association called for a moratorium on executions because "the administration of the death penalty, far from being fair and consistent, is instead a haphazard maze of unfair...
...more painful for him when his mother's new marriage began dissolving almost immediately. A few weeks after the marriage was annulled, Turner was arrested in connection with a complaint filed by Qubilah in which she claimed he had pushed her out of a car during an argument. Soon after, police were called again when Qubilah reported that her son had attacked her. When the officers arrived, Malcolm told them he was angry about her drinking. She insisted that her son was schizophrenic but had not taken his medication in two years. Police took them both to a psychiatric hospital...
...agencies to turn over the names of thousands of workers who might have a grudge against their employer--all in order to learn whether a Cabinet member got some free football tickets and a few other gifts? The answer: independent counsel Donald Smaltz, who has become a walking, talking argument for changing the way this nation investigates its high public officials...
...panel's recommendations will disappoint many, including supporters of in-vitro fertilization. Several experts told the committee that cloning might be the only chance for many infertile couples to have their own genetically related children. That argument didn't persuade the commissioners, however. Their report concluded that "these cases are insufficiently compelling to justify proceeding with the use of such techniques...
...double standard that reflected favoritism toward General Ralston, Bacon said the line had to be drawn somewhere to end what had taken on some elements of a witch hunt, with old scores being settled by calls to the sexual-conduct hot line. That was his most compelling argument, I thought, although I couldn't help contemplating what exquisite use we would have made of that hot line in the days of Lieut. Sweeney...