Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Transition Records with colleagues from WHRB and went on to produce three Bob Dylan albums and discover several groups, including the Mothers of Invention. He died in Studio City, Calif., on September 6, 1978. Another black member of the class, Frederick L. Brown, is a judge on the Massachusetts Court of Appeals...
...ended last week the life of John Spenkelink, 30, a wiry drifter and habitual criminal, after a frenzied week of final appeals, to the Florida Supreme Court, to the Federal Appeals Court and to the U.S. Supreme Court. He had won two brief stays, then lost them both because of pleas by Florida officials who were determined to put him to death...
...cruel and unfair form of revenge that ought to be abolished. Sociologists have never definitively answered the question, but the views of the American public, aroused by violent crime, seem clear: polls show that nearly two-thirds of the people favor capital punishment. Accordingly, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1972 against the arbitrary way in which capital punishment was imposed, 34 states have rewritten their death penalty laws to conform with the court's guidelines. State courts have imposed death sentences on about 500 people, nearly half of them black men and all but one of them...
...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" and "shams" and rejected them all. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court four times and was four times rejected...
...Supreme Judicial Court will now have to develop a balancing test to determine when the individual's right to privacy outweighs the state's interest in preserving the sanctity of human life. And the court must once again address the prickly question, who should pull the plug? Should the court provide doctors a guideline for dealing with patients who refuse treatment, or should it require adjudication of all right-to-die cases? The court's answer could lead to another stormy chapter in the effort to resolve the dilemma that Karen Ann Quinlan first triggered...