Word: died
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Conceivably, Marcos could retire from office voluntarily, but on the basis of his past performance, this seems very unlikely. Conceivably, he could be forced out of office, but this also seems unlikely...Hence it is highly probable that he will die in office...
...setback came in the case of Warren McCleskey, a black man convicted of killing a white Atlanta police officer during a 1978 robbery. Lawyers for McCleskey argued that race had played a part in his being sentenced to die in Georgia's electric chair -- the race of his victim as well as his own. The principal supporting evidence was a statistical study of more than 2,000 Georgia murder cases from 1973 to 1979. Conducted by University of Iowa Law Professor David Baldus and two colleagues, the study found that those who killed whites were 4.3 times as likely...
...helped their father and his cell mate to escape from an Arizona prison. Soon after, they commandeered a car, and the two convicts killed all four family members who had been in it, including a two-year-old. After fleeing a shoot-out with police, the father died of exposure in the desert. The sons were eventually convicted of murder and sentenced to die, even though they did not pull the trigger...
...Justices writing last week seemed to know that. Summoning particular eloquence, Dissenter Brennan said, "It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined." Speaking directly to the apparent ending of the larger court debate, Powell wrote, "It is the legislatures, the elected representatives of the people, that are 'constituted to respond to the will and consequently the moral...
During a teatime discussion group at a professor's house, Stefan Malherbe, editor of the student newspaper Die Matie, jumps to his feet. "There has been a great change in the past six months," he says. "The most apathetic student now realizes that he must take part in politics. For the first time, students are taking a critical look at the government...