Word: brutality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deterred by the death penalty. The electric chair* thus remains in 23 states and the District of Columbia, the gas chamber in ten states, the noose in six, the firing squad in one (Utah). Indeed, ten abolitionist states have restored the death penalty in the past, usually after some brutal crime. Missouri did so in 1919, for example, after two hoodlums killed two policemen in a gunfight. Conversely, Oregon provided abolitionists with an unexpected argument when it restored the death penalty in 1920. Within a year, for some as yet unexplained reasons, the state's homicide rate almost doubled...
...Shelf"-jailbird slang for the solitary-confinement cells at San Quentin prison. Before he was 21, Sands was serving time on three convictions for armed robbery, with sentences in each of from one year to life, and had won a reputation as a con so "solid" that not even brutal beatings by guards could bend him to prison rules...
...city's fast-changing fads and fashions; one recent article gave city housewives much the best of it in comparison with their sisters in suburbia. Most impressive of all, for the past eight weeks the Trib has been running an incisive daily series on New York's brutal and burgeoning big-city problems...
...often responsible ourselves for a lot of bad things that happen to us; that blacks, at home and here in Africa or in Haiti or where have you, are just as capable of dropping the hammer on each other, of shooting, killing, and maltreating each other in the brutal and stupid ways that human beings have dealt with each other since they rose up from the apes...
Paul L. Nyhus, teaching fellow in General Education, joined the flight independently. His wife said yesterday that "he was motivated by the brutal films of Sunday's march and by the appeal of the National Council of Churches...