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...catalyst of these emotions is Mumia Abu-Jamal, 41, a prizewinning journalist. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17 for a crime he insists he did not commit: the 1981 slaying of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Sympathizers around the globe from Dublin to Soweto hail him as a political prisoner punished for taking journalistic aim at politicians, police and the prison system (most recently in a book entitled Live from Death Row). If he is put to death, they argue, he will be the first American since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg...
...secretary. In his opening statement, assistant solicitor Keith Giese said, "For nine days in the fall of 1994, Susan Smith looked this country in the eye and lied." The defense, mounted by David Bruck, wanted the jurors to see Smith as a deeply troubled woman who tried to commit suicide and momentarily forgot about her sons. "Please understand," said co-defense attorney Judy Clarke, "the victims in this case are Michael and Alex Smith. They were beautiful children. They were precious children . [but] this case goes way back, well before the night...
...team members now play professionally outside the U.S.--and in part to Sampson's aggressive style of play. "Steve's letting us play open soccer, attacking soccer," says striker Joe-Max Moore. "He's letting us take more chances." Despite the obvious improvement, the U.S.S.F. refused to commit to Sampson on a permanent basis...
...Simpson defense team ran into some heavy battering -- from its own witnesses. Among the damaging testimony and evidence elicited by prosecutors: a doctor who said that although Simpson was physically infirm, he would have been fit enough to commit the murders; an O.J. workout videotape made shortly before the murders in which he jokes about punching "the wife"; and a police photographer who said bloody socks never showed up in a tape he made of O.J.'s bedroom because they had already been collected by police...
Kevin Velasquez 17, of Roslindale was arrested and charged with breaking and entering into a motor vehicle with intent to commit a felony...