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Those attitudes, according to forensic psychiatrist Eric Goldsmith, are "the usual combination" for volunteers. Murderers can be astonishingly sensitive to criticism, and offering to die can be seen as an effective shield from the accusations of society or the pangs of conscience. Ross's public defenders have told him that he could have an additional 5 to 10 years of appeals left and that his mental instability might win him commutation to life without parole. But for Ross, who wept at how few responses his more than 200 goodbye letters to pen pals and supporters elicited, the prospect...
PLED GUILTY. ERIC RUDOLPH, 38, to the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta Olympics and attacks on abortion clinics and a gay club in Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama, which in total killed two people and injured 150; as part of a deal to serve four life sentences instead of face execution; in Atlanta and Birmingham. Rudolph, who was caught in May 2003 after having spent five years hiding in the North Carolinian woods, also disclosed the location of more than 110 kilos of dynamite he had hidden there. His primary motivation, he wrote in a rambling and unrepentant manifesto released after...
...then-popular trio, and later as Berry's bandmate and co-writer, shaped the rock legend's inventive sound; in St. Louis. Johnson, for whom Berry wrote Johnny B. Goode, played on such tunes as Maybelline, Rock and Roll Music, and Roll over Beethoven. He later backed Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, and in 2001 was introduced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
...Singer Carl Perkins taped a rockabilly revival for Britain's Channel 4, to be broadcast on New Year's Day. For the 30th-anniversary celebration of his platinum platter Blue Suede Shoes, Perkins played a set of vintage rock 'n' roll with a little help from such admirers as Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Rock groupies were impressed by an even unlikelier occurrence: Harrison, who lost his wife Patti Boyd to Clapton in 1974, joking onstage with his onetime rival. For a night, at least, the two guitarists had obviously decided...
...declared the failed suicide squeeze attempt to be a foul ball, Walsh jogged out of the dugout to argue the call. The two umpires then conversed for several minutes before overturning the initial ruling and sending Vance to first base on catcher’s interference by Yale backstop Eric Rasmussen...