Word: executioner
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SOME OPPONENTS of capital punishment favor television coverage. They believe that if the public sees a person's life being taken, many will be shocked and morally outraged, and the numbers who favor the death penalty will decline substantially. This, too, is a naive belief. More often than not, dinner...
"My father was an organizer and resistance fighter in Southeast Pelopponeses." Haviaras recalls, "he was captured by the authorities [Nazis and Greek collaborators], and when my mother went to visit him she tried to have him sent to a concentration camp rather than face an immediate execution." He refused to...
In the worst mass murder in New York City history, ten people, including eight children, were shot dead, execution-style, in a Brooklyn apartment last week. In New Hampshire, Christopher Wilder's cross-country odyssey of kidnap, rape and murder ended in his shooting death during a struggle with...
Villalobos has long been the leading guerrilla exponent of such a strategy. As a teen-age student leader, he began in 1971 to form clandestine left-wing groups to foster his own version of "armed struggle"; the units eventually specialized in kidnaping and urban terror. Villalobos created a major scandal...
DIED. Ronald O'Bryan, 39, the so-called Candy Man killer, who was convicted in 1975 of poisoning his eight-year-old son with cyanide-laced Halloween sweets; by execution (a lethal injection of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride); in Huntsville, Texas.