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The cast plays all the complicated parts, with all the stops pulled out, with astonishing insight and energy. We always know where each character stands, exactly what the chorus feels. Joan Tolentino and William Bramhall play a heart-rending scene that leaves no doubt about the horror of execution; later...
Both Laredos were religious in their execution of Beethoven's sharp dynamic contrast and Leonard-Shurine in their emphasis on structural detail. But stunning as were these effects, they seemed to be employed as things-in-themselves rather than as elements in an over-all interpretation. Too much for instance...
Last week Tshombe sat in a shuttered police cell in Algiers, having been kidnaped on a private airplane over the Mediterranean and flown into Algeria. The Congolese government immediately asked Algeria to extradite him so that the sentence of execution could be carried out. Even in jail, however, Tshombe haunted...
Some of these tactics sound far out, but they seem to be working. Although Mississippi judges frequently sentence Negroes to death for rape and murder, a determined group of lawyers has managed to block every Mississippi execution for close to three years, mainly on the basis of the contention that...
If the murder rate holds steady until 1970, when Parliament is scheduled to review the effects of the suspension, the government is extremely unlikely to call for the restoration of capital punishment. Besides, every execution device in Britain has been dismantled, with the sole exception of the gallows at Wands...