Word: dies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regulation if you do acrobatics." Air Force superiors said the service didn't have to obey Federal Aviation Administration rules even though the T-3, unlike most Air Force planes, is registered with the FAA. Back at his apartment, Fischer was blunter. "Someone's going to die before they get rid of these spins," he told his roommate, also a T-3 pilot. "And it's not going...
...Without self-government, physical safety and material luxury are nothing but the barn and the hay for human cattle. Some people would certainly accept that life if the barn is warm and the hay fresh, but honorable Americans disdain it. They truly believe in the motto "Live Free or Die...
...counts of the same charge ultimately leveled against au pair Louise Woodward: involuntary manslaughter. Woodward was sentenced to time already served; Nichols may face the death penalty. Why? Because myopic America wants revenge at any cost for Oklahoma's dead. Likewise, the country wants to see the pernicious Unabomber die so badly that Janet Reno rejected an insanity plea last week in order to preserve the possibility of imposing the death penalty...
...state that commutes death sentences less often than the Patriots reach the Superbowl, Karla Faye Tucker should die. She should be strapped to the lethal injection gurney just like her 37 compatriots were last year and she should be pumped full of enough toxins to asphyxiate and kill her. The crime of which Terry Nichols was convicted does not warrant the final punishment of death. If Ted Kaczynski is insane, life imprisonment without parole and medical help are appropriate, not execution...
...with murder, reason rarely enters the picture when weighing use of the death penalty; it is understandably and often overshadowed by emotion. These three cases show at least this much. Unfortunately, the result of capital punishment and our inability to impose it consistently or rationally is that people die who should not--the same crime we are trying to avenge in the first place...