Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Randall Adams did not complain when Continental Flight 140 from Houston to Columbus took off 20 minutes behind schedule last Thursday. He was already twelve years late leaving Dallas County, Texas, which he says had become his "hell on earth." In 1976, several weeks after Adams found a job repairing...
Adams had been in jail for eight years when Errol Morris, an avant-garde film-maker from New York City, came to Texas to make a documentary about Dr. James Grigson, known as Dr. Death to defense lawyers for his consistent findings that convicted murderers were so unrepentant that they...
His other shortcoming is a lack of experience: though he spent five years on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, he has never been a member of the Armed Services panel, has never performed military service or worked at the Pentagon. But in the wake of the Tower tempest, lawmakers...
"He's tough. That's what we wanted... tough, tough, tough guy," he said of Cheney. "This time it will be a confirmation, not an execution."
After Officer Byrne's execution, New York began the development of Tactical Narcotics Teams, designed to fight the proliferation of crack and the crime and murder which it breeds.