Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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% The last-minute reprieve was amplified at week's end by another statement from the captors that omitted any new threat of execution. It was one of the few hopeful signs amid what appeared to be a hopeless stalemate in efforts to free any of the 24 foreign hostages in...
The week's most riveting drama focused on the four Beirut University College teachers who were kidnaped in January. As the week began, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine delivered to a Western news agency in Beirut a six-minute videotape of Steen reading a statement from the captives...
At precisely midnight the kidnapers cited the family appeals among their reasons for lifting the execution threat. The captors seemed intrigued, however, by remarks of Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres concerning the 400 Arab prisoners. While Peres declared, "Israel cannot and will not act according to ultimatums," he added that...
Bradfield was an Upper Merion English teacher and is now serving three life sentences for conspiracy in the Reinert murders. The actual killings were done by Jay Smith, the school principal, who was sentenced to death and awaits execution. How Smith ever got to be an administrator of impressionable youth...
Far too many of the scenes are marred, however, by lackadaisical execution by the spent actors. And a few of the scenes are downright inexplicable. During one interminable aria, Sesto wrestles with a rubber snake, ties himself up with a garden hose, then connects the end of the hose to...