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Kerrey's message hit home for at least some at the book store. William Copeland, on vacation from Carver, Mass., said he was "impressed by [Kerrey's] honesty" and the senator's background as a wounded Vietnam veteran, businessman and former governor of Nebraska...
...people, was moving at 91.8 m.p.h. When the overnighter from Washington reached the curve, it should have slowed down to 30 m.p.h. The trainee, Richard Abramson, 41, told investigators that he hit the brakes three times before the curve, but they failed to slow the 120-ton locomotive. Willis Copeland, a veteran engineer supervising Abramson, tried the emergency brakes. Too late...
...took the jury less than four hours to decide the sentence: death by lethal injection. If the judge ratifies the jury's recommendation next month, as expected, Faye Copeland, 69, will become the oldest woman in the nation on death row. Last week Livingston County jurors ordered the ultimate punishment for the Missouri great-grandmother for her role in the bizarre killings of five drifters to cover up a cattle-rustling scheme...
Authorities say that Copeland, with her husband Ray, 75, had hired the transients to buy livestock from local cattle barns with bad checks, resold the animals before the checks bounced, then silenced their unwitting agents. The victims were discovered on farms in northwest Missouri with .22-cal. gunshot wounds in their heads. The cattle scheme allegedly netted the couple $32,000. Prosecutors have also charged Ray Copeland with the murders, but his trial awaits the outcome of a competency hearing later this month. His lawyers claim that Copeland is senile...
Even if last week's death sentence is upheld by the Missouri courts, Faye Copeland may yet be spared the lethal needle. Given the length of death-row appeals in the state -- usually seven to 11 years -- legal observers say it is more likely that she will simply die in prison...