Word: commiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death penalty deters crime." According to this argument, criminals who would otherwise commit atrocious murders would refrain from such action out of fear of being put to death by the government. The electric chair, according to many death penalty proponents, will cast a long shadow of intimidation upon potential murderers...
...Suicide is a tough subject," Rosenthal says. "Even people in hospitals commit suicide. People can be in care and still commit suicide. People come [to Harvard] with a lot of stresses, and it can be aggravated in a college environment...
Harvard comes out of the weekend tourney knowing that it must shoot much better, make fewer turnovers and commit fewer fouls to have a successful season. The loss to Maryland could potentially hurt the Crimson's chances for a decent seed in the NCAA Tournament, especially after Holy Cross played the Terps to within eight points...
...worthy of First Amendment protection. "There is nothing good for society about this book," insists Rodney Alan Smolla, a law professor at the College of William and Mary, who argued their case. "People cannot openly traffic in information that has the sole purpose of assisting others to commit murder." Along with its grisly instructions, Smolla points out, Hit Man has such reprehensible details as a suggested price scale for contract killings: $75,000 to $100,000 for a county sheriff; $250,000 for a federal judge...
...from place to place, living out of a car, scrambling for clothes. It is hard to know what's important. I feel I'm the judge's victim. Louise took away Matthew, and the judge took away justice. What are we telling people in this case? That if you commit a crime and lie, you get away with it? It really belittles and diminishes the value of Matthew's life. [Is this] a society that views children as dispensable? Children of abuse cannot take the stand, so who is going to speak for them? I was brought up [to believe...