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The Death Penalty: Abolition Abroad, Execution at Home--All-day symposium. Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, 9 a.m.
In response to this anti-academic feeling, atightly-knit association of some of the mosttalented painters formed a group known as thePeredvizhniki, or the Circle of Itinerants.Dedicated to the "fostering of love of art insociety," the Itinerants mounted travellingexhibitions of their work to provide theinhabitants of the provinces with the...
These are the charges, supported by eyewitness accounts and recovered camp documents. In 1962 a Soviet court tried Linnas in absentia as a war criminal and sentenced him to death. But by that time he was living in Greenlawn, N.Y., having become a citizen in 1960, nine years after entering...
It is certainly true that the circumstances, legal and geopolitical, have denied Linnas the sort of defense he would be entitled to if tried in the U.S. But his case has received eight years of protracted review, during which various judges have concluded that despite his claim of innocence, he...
The Administration realized that it would be difficult for congressmen to face their consitituents if they voted against any anti-drug bill. So two provisions--one calling for the execution of pushers convicted for the second time, and the other allowing courts to scrap the Exclusionary rule in cases of...