Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watching the huge trucks and big 'dozers revving their engines, we envisaged progress coming to Harvard. We saw the spectre of Mem Hall, reduced to its skeleton, spotlighted, awaiting execution. The crowd roared as the cables tightened. No time for sentiment, this.
Line of Martyrs. His partisans have often called Casement's sentence and execution a "judicial assassination,'' yet there is a dark blot on his martyr's shroud-the Black Diaries, "200 pages of concentrated erotica," found in his lodgings. If authentic, the diaries proved Casement probably...
The running and ball-handling of the Bruin backs enabled the winners to gain almost at will on the options; Frank Finney, in particular, proved his mettle as a quarterback with his flawless execution of this play.
Some retentionists claim that the death penalty builds up some sort of "moral abhorrence" in the community for the crime of homicide, the supreme punishment stigmatizing it as the greatest offense. But execution is hardly a moral argument; ethical standards are the products of education and environment, not force.
Recent psychological evidence, furthermore, hints that the threat of execution actually increases the possibility for homicide by appealing to the potential murderer's sense of the spectacular. The criminal mind may be drawn to the celebrity accompanying a murder trial, conducted by a jury with a guillotine in its pocket...