Word: ferguson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guaranteed by the state constitution, plan to appeal. "As we're ending the 20th century, it looks like de facto segregation will become the new segregation," says John Brittain, a University of Connecticut law professor and a lead attorneys for the plaintiffs. "It's 100 years after Plessy v. Ferguson, and we are still separate, still unequal...
...Colin Ferguson, the man who gunned down six commuters and wounded 19 others in a 1993 shooting rampage on New York's Long Island Rail Road, was sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison, ensuring a stay behind bars for life...
...York, survivors of another mass killing tried last week to deal with their anger in an unusual way: confronting their attacker. Two dozen people who sustained injuries or lost relatives in the so-called Long Island Rail Road massacre came to have their say at the sentencing of Colin Ferguson, the man convicted of murdering six riders and wounding 19 on a commuter train in December 1993. "The fear and pain I felt I will never forget," said Robert Giugliano, who was shot in the chest. Then, glaring at the manacled Ferguson, Giugliano demanded, "Look at these eyes...
...some, feeling good may take some sleep and recovery. Diana I. Williams '95, who has been working since last spring on her thesis about New Orleans creoles of color in the age of Plessy v. Ferguson, said she hasn't slept in two days. She said she is leaving for Puerto Rico this weekend...
...terms for killing six passengers on a crowded commuter train. Judge Donald Belfi capped three days of wrenching court statements from enraged survivors of the 1993 shooting spree by also heaping on sentences of 8 to 25 years in prison for each of the 19 additional people injured by Ferguson's fire. "You, Colin Ferguson, will never again return to society," Belfi said. In a rambling statement before the sentencing, Ferguson compared himself to the martyred saint John the Baptist. "He was beheaded by a criminal justice system similar to this," Ferguson said...