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DIED. Linwood Briley, 30, convicted murderer condemned for killing a disc jockey in Richmond, and implicated in ten other vicious Richmond-area gang killings in 1979; by electrocution; in Richmond. Last May Briley masterminded the largest death-row breakout in history when, with his brother James, 28, and four other...
EXECUTED. Robert Austin Sullivan, 36, convicted murderer; by electrocution, despite clemency pleas from seven Florida bishops and Pope John Paul II; at the state penitentiary in Starke, Fla. Sullivan was found guilty of the 1973 slaying of the night manager of a restaurant outside Miami. Although he first confessed to...
Audiences will undoubtedly walk into Daniel thinking about the Rosenberg case and view the movie as a statement about the Rosenbergs. Ironically though, both Lumet and Doctorow downplay the parallel with the Rosenberg case, and consequently any social or political aspects of the film. For instance, they insist that the...
It was, of course, the death sentence that inflamed emotions throughout the world. The standard explanation for the extreme penalty is that the Korean War and the militant anti-Communism of the early '50s created a climate of fear and vengeance. But there is also ample evidence that the...
In a similar case of an unsuccessful electrocution attempt in Louisiana in 1946, the convict was returned to the chair the next year and died. It this case and the Evans case demonstrate the only two options in case of an unsuccessful execution attempt, then perhaps one could say that...