Word: crimed
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There's a reason King's story feels like a legal thriller: its plot line is melodramatic and painfully one-dimensional. The murder of Byrd is as horrific a crime as can be imagined--chaining a man to a truck and dragging him three miles until he dies of his injuries. And the protagonist is a dime-store white supremacist, spouting anti-black and anti-Semitic dogma and spewing hatred to the bitter end. Last week a Jasper jury tacked a Hollywood ending onto King's life story, convicting him of first-degree murder and sentencing him to death...
...ever a crime cried out for grave punishment, it's this one. King and two friends were driving a 1982 Ford pickup in the early-morning hours last June. They spotted Byrd, 49, an unemployed vacuum-cleaner salesman, walking home from a party on a lonely stretch of Highway 96 and offered him a ride. They drove him to a deserted corner of the backwoods and, after a struggle, chained him to the truck by his ankles. Then they dragged him for three miles along a rural road outside Jasper. Byrd was alive for the first two miles, a pathologist...
...artist client to subvert her profession and violate the law. She spent years in prison after refusing to testify against this con man and only began to speak of the gross injustice Because this peculiar, intractable lawyer is the heroine of Janet Malcolm's new journalistic essay, The Crime of Sheila McGough, the book has a fascinating mystery at its heart: the search for truth in the shadows of the legal system. Malcolm is an excellent and witty tour guide through this material, some of the densest thickets of bureaucratic confusion this side of Kafka. After all, McGough's client...
...something tangible. When she discovers inconsistencies among the documents and depositions, her words practically beam off the page: for an instant she transforms herself from cerebral commentator into Nancy Drew, and the excitement is infectious. In any case, though probably a minor work from this superior journalist,The Crime of Sheila McGoughfeels exceedingly comfortable, energetic, and lived in. This is no John Grisham thriller; instead, this may be the most innocently guilty pleasure for a while...
...Gaither's killing may add momentum to efforts to include sexual orientation in hate-crime legislation, though congressional Republicans have resisted creating federal hate-crime laws covering gays. Then there's the states; 40 have hate-crime laws, but only 21 cover gays. Meanwhile, in a society that remains conflicted over homosexuality, gay citizens increasingly fear for their lives...