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Sifting through the mass of testimony, the jury deliberated for nearly ten hours. The verdict brought cries of protest from foes of capital punishment, who believed that if Hanratty with his history of mental illness, had pleaded "guilty, but insane," he would have escaped the gallows. Execution was set for...
With the exception of Walter Ulbricht's puppet state of East Germany, the most stubbornly Stalinist regime in the Soviet empire is run by Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Observing the form rather than the function of Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization drive, Novotny three months ago ordered the...
Lugging his heavy cross, a convict was toiling up the steep street of Jerusalem that led to the hill of execution. He paused once, and would have rested against one of the houses. But the householder, standing in the doorway, told the convict to move on. He had seen plenty...
Correct Calm. Two days later, Lawson was back in Kongolo looking for more priests to rescue. He was captured and beaten with fists and rifle butts by angry troops. Finally, Katangese officers took charge, and to satisfy a howling mob that demanded a public execution, the officers beat him up...
This is straight out of the Marquis de Sade, with some Sartrean existentialist glosses provided by the doctor's morphine-addicted mistress ("The world is foul, Commissioner, rotting like a badly stored fruit") and a trained nurse who has written a pamphlet titled: Death, Goal and Purpose of Our...