Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason the death penalty has virtually no deterrent effect on capital crime is simply that the general population, including the criminal elements within it, has been so completely isolated from the harsh realities of capital punishment for such a long time. If executions were televised live and in color, like press conferences, the fear of being put to death would be quickly reimplanted in the minds of all potential capital offenders. Capital punishment satisfies the moral obligation of those who take lives unlawfully to relinquish their own lives in return...
...murder night, began calling friends at 9:50 after finding his mother's body, and was waiting outside his house when police arrived at 10:02. No trace of blood was found on Reilly, and this time table would scarcely have allowed him to commit the savage crime-his mother had been extensively mutilated...
...talking about 1984, the year of George Orwell's novel of the superstate Oceania in which betting for "some millions of proles was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive." Nor, for that matter, is the citizenry much disposed to discuss the possibility that organized crime, with deep, comfortable roots in New Jersey, will move in with the wheels and the slots to control the life of the city and even the state...
...kinds are growing. Legislation to permit new and expanded types of wagering?from jai alai to bingo, dog racing and card rooms ?is pending in 37 states. A few states have even invaded the fertile field of numbers betting, long the exclusive and profitable province of organized crime. Two states, Delaware and Montana, have joined Nevada in providing legal betting on sports events like professional football, which is where illegal bookies get most of their action...
Moreover, there is little public or judicial support for police crackdowns on illegal wagering, a so-called victimless crime. The principal moral objection to the numbers game today is that it is, in effect, a regressive form of taxation that is borne far more heavily by the poor than the well-to-do. On the other hand, scoffs a New York hunch player, "TV is regressive. So are beer, taxes and mass transit fares...