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...city councillor was freed on his own recognizance after the verdict, but he must appear before a federal probation officer once a week and must telephone daily...
Government forces in Algeria killed nearly 60 suspected militant Muslims, including several they believed responsible for the murders of a policeman and two journalists in the capital, Algiers. An earlier raid by 200 armed men freed about 1,000 fundamentalists from a provincial prison, including 300 on death...
...first weekly episode of ABC's new Turning Point series -- serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and his father were brought together for a session on Dateline NBC. CBS's 48 Hours spent another hour exploring the case of Russell Obremski, convicted of two Oregon murders in 1969 and recently freed on parole. And NBC's Now served up its own creepy sociopath: a man in prison for kidnapping untold numbers of children from their bed and doing "unspeakable things" to them...
...more years behind bars, long past necessity. Rather than pay for new prisons, society would be well served by releasing some of its older prisoners who pose no threat and using the money to catch young street thugs. Warden John Whitley agrees that many older prisoners here could be freed tomorrow with little or no danger to society. Release, however, is governed by law or by politicians, not by penal professionals. Even murderers, those most feared by society, pose little risk. Historically, for example, the domestic staff at Louisiana's Governor's mansion has been made up of murderers, hand...
...respected district attorney. Equally troublesome, declared Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, the death penalty "remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice and mistake." According to a 1987 Stanford University survey, at least 23 Americans have been wrongly executed in the 20th century. Just since 1973 an additional 48 have been freed from death row when evidence of their innocence surfaced before their sentences were carried out. Too, says Blackmun, the "virus of racism" pervades the penalty's application. Studies confirmed by the General Accounting Office in 1990 report that blacks who kill whites are sentenced to death at "nearly 22 times...