Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar case of an unsuccessful electrocution attempt in Louisiana in 1946, the convict was returned to the chair the next year and died. It this case and the Evans case demonstrate the only two options in case of an unsuccessful execution attempt, then perhaps one could say that continuing with the execution, rather than forcing an extended delay, might be the more merciful option--if such a scale of relativity exists...
...PROBLEM WITH MACHINERY does not mitigate a crime, but it does change the responsibility of society toward the convict. Prolonging the execution, as was done to Evans, smacks of torture. Forcing him to endure another attempt, on the other hand, is torture of a different sort, one difficult to measure, for it concerns mental and not physical pain...
...touch the money. It may be easier to catch them on the money than the dope." Criminal lawyers, naturally, are skeptical, even contemptuous. "They always say they are going after the financial side," says Houston Attorney Charles Szekely, "but they don't. They find anybody they think they can convict...
...taxes. In another study, more than half believed that nearly all Americans would cheat if they felt they could get away with it. Yet another survey found that three out of four of those polled would refuse to inform on a serious tax evader if they had evidence to convict him. A slogan spray-painted in red on a bridge spanning Boston's Charles River seems to sum up a growing sentiment: TAXATION is THEFT...
...precautions, but the police were too quick. Before Harvey's call-girl business in Orange County, Calif., could put its planned emergency procedures into motion, the local vice squad had seized the firm's computers and software. Recorded on 20 small Mylar discs was evidence that helped convict Harvey on two counts of pimping and one count of conspiracy: the names and credit card numbers of several thousand male customers, descriptions of known and suspected vice-squad members, and careful charts on more than 100 ladies of negotiable virtue, including hours worked, customers serviced and payments received...