Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Rifle Association plans to use its lobbying muscle to persuade Congress, which can overrule the council's decisions, to shoot down Clarke's plan. "It's another attempt by the D.C. government to put the blame on somebody else for its failure to deal with violent crime," says N.R.A. assistant general counsel Richard Gardiner. A veto is no cinch: only twice in the past 14 years has Congress vetoed a law enacted by the district...
...clever and made me return the chair to the prison that afternoon, my opposition to the death penalty had been formed. Years later, after I have lived more than a decade in the big city, been mugged at gunpoint, and developed, like most of us, a fear of violent crime, my simplistic and sympathetic notion of the murderer as victim has been tempered. My opposition to all killing...
...Only Texas and Florida have put more people to death since 1977 than Louisiana. Monroe was convicted of murdering Lenora Collins in her bed one steamy summer night in 1977. Despite a lack of physical evidence and a jailhouse suggestion by a man in Michigan that he committed the crime, Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer has not acted on the recommendation of his pardon board that the sentence be commuted to life in prison. Instead, Roemer will wait to see if the courts get him off the hook before he makes a final decision. It will be a final decision. With...
...another political battle was raging. Velma Barfield, a matronly grandmother convicted of murdering her fiance while under the influence of drugs, was scheduled to be executed around election time. Barfield had won the sympathies of religious and political leaders all over the world because of the circumstances of the crime and her conduct as a prisoner. Despite pleas that her sentence be commuted so she could continue her Christian counseling work with fellow prisoners, she was put to death that November. It was commonly believed that failing to execute the woman would have had dire political consequences for Hunt...
According to Sullivan, recycling, crime, "the efficient administration of city government and the delivery of municipal services," including police protection, will also come...