Word: convicted
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Like rival clans thrust together at gunpoint, the two halves of a Philadelphia courtroom audience watched each other warily last week, begrudging good behavior. Then a convict with cascading dreadlocks entered, and the people to the right of the aisle erupted. "Free Mumia!" they screamed. "Mumia, we love you!" Women blew kisses. Men punched the air with salutes. To the left of the aisle, the other half watched, silently enraged that the defendant might get another chance...
...stared straight ahead, not even blinking. Beverly Russell, her stepfather, pulled a handerchief and patted his brow, and Linda Russell, her mother, bowed her head and cried silently into a tissue." The jury of nine men and three women had taken the same amount of time last Saturday to convict the 23-year-old Smith ofmurdering her two young sons,Michael, 3, and Alex, 14 months. All of the jurors are members of the same community that she had angered and betrayed last November when her nationally-televised pleas to find the missing boys' kidnapper turned out to be stagecraft...
...unimaginative and transparent attempt at sympathy, Altman quotes the perhaps real, but plainly media savvy convict, who pleads his manhood over his less apparent canine qualities. In presenting this account, Altman evidently suggests a racially biased policy among Southern policy makers, because the school of argumentation presented here directly descends from the antebellum crusade against slavery. An institution which in its diminution of the human spirit ranks among the most sordid legacies of world history, plantation slavery subjugated everyone, white and Black, within a racially divided and potentially explosive social prison. Whereas contemporary prison labor specifically punishes the guilty...
Koresh is dead, after all, and will remain dead; people who bomb Federal buildings and murder children are all extremists. It is simply an issue of definition. It is irrelevant that they are white supremacists, since we need no more evidence than their most recent action to convict them of moral decrepitude...
While a jury failed to convict the eight White Sox players, baseball's first commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, banished the eight players from baseball for life...