Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face like a bloodhound that has just eaten an escaped convict, an image that was once permitted on movie screens only if the dog died in the end. But movies are artier than ever, and the rough features of Anthony Quinn, which have long hidden a consummately skillful actor, are in total demand. He is a leading man now, in films and on Broadway too. Rich and nearly 50, he talks like a teen-aged kid who has just been told he made 700 on his college boards...
...Convict Paul Crump has been much publicized. The crime he was convicted for- a 1953 holdup slaying-was apparently the act of an angry young Negro who went wrong in an environment where nobody ever found it easy to go right. Last summer, when he was only hours away from the electric chair, Illinois Governor Otto Kerner finally yielded to mounting national pressure and commuted Crump's sentence to life imprisonment (TIME, Aug. 10). Why? Because Crump, in the course of his imprisonment, had become an entirely different personality. And one of the many things that helped to transform...
...book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, tells the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived-or perished. A typical day: chased from bed at 5 a.m. for a bowl of soupy gruel, herded to work on a construction project guarded by sadistic overseers, fall back...
When I was a student at Columbia University in 1941, I had the good fortune to hear the Louisiana ex-convict Leadbelly sing at a private party...
...judicial systems. North Carolina's Governor Terry Sanford led his state's fight for court reform, declared that the present system contains "glaring evils"-among them, the fact that most of the nearly 900 justices of the peace get no pay for hearing a case unless they convict the defendant...