Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bundy, who had dodged three previous execution dates through appeals, has been called a suspect in as many as 36 deaths.
The execution brought a sigh of relief in the LaConner, Wash., home of Vivian Rancourt, whose daughter, Susan, was among Bundy's victims. "Good," Mrs. Rancourt said when told Bundy was dead. "The only thing I can say is thank God, it's finally over."
Forty-two people witnessed the execution from behind a plexiglass partition. They included 12 official witnesses, among them a state representative and three state attorneys; 12 reporters; and 18 other people, mostly corrections officials.
Take that favorite with compilers of resumes, "Personnel is policy." This slogan reflects the fact that things don't happen just because the President- elect has said they will. All his ideas and campaign pledges depend for their execution on a hydra-headed Administration. If the hydra's ideas come...
...Amory), enters incognito because he is to be beheaded for refusing to marry the eminently unattractive Katisha (Laurie Myers). Nanki-Poo was counting on the imminent execution of his rival, Ko-Ko, thus facilitating his elopement with the delectable Yum-Yum (Amy Daley). To his chagrin, Ko-Ko is executioner rather than executed, and is about to marry Yum-Yum that very afternoon. Happily, Nanki-Poo is able to strike a deal with the Executioner. The Mikado's demand for an execution has imperiled Ko-Ko's life (he being the only person on death row at the time...