Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missed the whole point of what is taking place. This is not another Lutheran rage of 95 theses, nor is it merely another thrust against a latter-day Pius IX. It is not even an introduction to the halfway house of Callahan, Curran and Company. It is the death of the church. The young people with whom I communicate do not want a reformed church, a free church or an open church. They don't want any church, because they have grown free enough, mature enough not to need it. They have the best of its values without...
Abstinence is no answer: illegitimate births have more than tripled since 1940. The death rate during childbirth for unmarried whites was, from 1955 to 1959, nine times as great as for married whites, largely because of the incidence of illegal abortions. The death rate is higher for illegitimate babies, illegitimate children are physically less healthy than legitimate, and illegitimate children tend to become a costly social burden...
...Chamber. Though the decision was a setback for foes of capital punishment all over the country, it did not start a parade to the gas chamber. In fact, the court ruled that Saterfield and Anderson should get another hearing on their sentences because persons who oppose the death penalty had been kept off their juries...
Basing their order on a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the judges said that opponents of capital punishment may be excluded only when they admit that they would automatically vote against the death penalty, or that their views might influence their opinion of the defendant's guilt...
California was not the only state to uphold the death penalty last week, turning down an appeal from Richard Speck, who was convicted last year of stabbing and strangling eight nurses to death in a Chicago dormitory, the Illinois Supreme Court denied that Speck's death sentence is cruel and unusual punishment. It also rebuffed his attorneys' efforts to prove that Speck was not sane at the time of the murders and that opponents of the death penalty had been rejected as jurors when the jury was picked for his trial...