Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What we tried to do [in the meeting] was to give some understanding as to why people commit suicide," Catlin said. "Suicide is really devastating to people who might feel like they are to blame. Even knowing that they aren't doesn't make them feel less guilty. There are times people are convinced they want to kill themselves and won't give any indication that they...
...fact when, a few chapters into the new novel, Richie is found deservedly dead with a pistol in his hand, his grip on the lives of Terri and her daughter does seem to tighten. Nobody believes that Richie would have been public spirited enough to commit suicide. Some very unsympathetic cops sniff around Terri and her family and finally arrest her new lover, an upstanding lawyer and senatorial candidate whose 15-year-old son the corrupt Richie had smeared with phony charges that he molested Terri's little girl...
Would that the United States legal system abided by this standard of humanity and decency. On Monday, the Supreme Court refused a stay of execution for Jesse Dewayne Jacobs, a Texan who did not commit the murder of Etta Urdiales, for which he was tried and convicted in 1987. On Wednesday of this week, Jacobs was executed...
There is more. Not only did Jacobs not commit the murder, but a Texas court found his sister guilty of that same crime only seven months after the original conviction. Jacobs' conviction was his own doing. Preferring the prospect of death to life in prison, he confessed to a murder that he did not commit. Later, it became apparent that his sister, Bobbie Hogan, had killed Urdiales...
Alternative rockers are notoriously mopey, but Love's husband Kurt Cobain took the attitude to a tragic extreme and killed himself with a shotgun. Months later, Love revealed the couple's horrifying original plan: to commit a double suicide following the birth of their daughter...