Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precisely 2 p.m., the first convict was brought forward, and the show began. Since he was over 45, he was, by law, exempt from whipping. Instead, his face was painted black-considered a great humiliation in Islam-and then he was led off to prison. Dressed only in white shorts, knotted in front, the next convict was fastened to the scaffold. He was the first prisoner's son. Both men had been found guilty of running a brothel. A heavy, padded belt was wrapped around his waist to protect his kidneys. An assistant painted a 2-in.-wide...
Whether or not the various periodicals involved in the printing of articles by Charles Hansen and Howard Morland are guilty of disseminating classified information on the hydrogen bomb [Oct. 1], it would certainly seem possible to convict them of publishing obscene material. Surely nuclear holocaust and the means of bringing it about are without redeeming social value. Making such information public can serve no positive purpose...
Richard Tuggle, a first-tune screen writer, has based his script on the real-life exploits of Frank Morris, a convict who fled Alcatraz with two buddies in 1962 and was never heard from again...
...acted in self-defense: the muscular, 230-lb. Szymankiewicz, said the defendant, had stolen $8,000 from him, forced him at gunpoint to perform fellatio and made him play Russian roulette. But the wounds were all from behind, and the jury took only 3½ hours to convict Spenkelink of murder and sentence him to death. His lawyers filed 22 appeals, claiming that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment, that it is unfairly applied more often to murderers of whites than of blacks and that the jury was improperly selected. Judges called some of the arguments "frivolous...
...name of Darlene Rogers, Desiree Etheridge, Daryal Hargett, Caren Prater, Gwendolyn Stinson, Andrea Foye, Christine, Ricketts, and those who knew and loved them, as well as those who fear for their own lives, we demand renewed and unceasing efforts by the police and informed individuals to find and convict the murderers of these women...