Search Details

Word: executioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

"These kids are explosive; they're always coming up with the big hit or the real fine execution when the situation calls for it," Park said. Yesterday he was especially refering to the clutch hits by Mark Bingham and Santos-Buch that drove in runs early.

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Baseballers Cut Jumbos to Size, 13-4 | 4/19/1977 | See Source »

The Mob's change in execution methods is exemplified by February's killing of Mafia Consigliere Frank ("Bomp") Bompensiero, 71. Shortly before 8 p.m. on Feb. 10, Bomp walked from his San Diego home to a nearby public telephone booth, which he used as an office in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: New Mafia Killer: A Silenced .22 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Popping Noise. The FBI has no idea whom Bompensiero telephoned that night, but they know one of his callers fingered him for execution. The old man was an easy target. As he walked away from the phone booth toward his home, he was dropped by a .22-cal. slug that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: New Mafia Killer: A Silenced .22 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Georgia is the only state with a law calling for the death penalty for rape of an adult woman (Florida and Mississippi provide for execution for the rape of children). A local jury, after noting Coker's previous convictions for rape-murder and rape-kidnaping, ordered him to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Arguing About Death for Rape | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

Although both Coker and his victim were white, Kendall marshaled historical and statistical data to show that execution for rape was based on race. Before the Civil War, Georgia law was typical of Southern statutes in specifying that a white man raping a black woman could draw a fine or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Arguing About Death for Rape | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

Previous | 457 | 458 | 459 | 460 | 461 | 462 | 463 | 464 | 465 | 466 | 467 | 468 | 469 | 470 | 471 | 472 | 473 | 474 | 475 | 476 | 477 | Next