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...Columbia, the gas chamber in ten states, the noose in six, the firing squad in one (Utah). Indeed, ten abolitionist states have restored the death penalty in the past, usually after some brutal crime. Missouri did so in 1919, for example, after two hoodlums killed two policemen in a gunfight. Conversely, Oregon provided abolitionists with an unexpected argument when it restored the death penalty in 1920. Within a year, for some as yet unexplained reasons, the state's homicide rate almost doubled...
...what we need--not now anyway. The Brattle could come up with a totally mindless festival without half trying. Cowboy films say. Gunfight at the OK Corral, Shane, Broken Arrow, the Virginian. A flash of gunfire and the mind is soothed. Or navy films, consciousness corroded by a film of brine. The Caine Mutiny, Run Silent, Run Deep, even Captain Horatio Hornblower...
...said, Felipe went to the police in the small town of El Cairo, then joined the posse sent to track his brother down. They found Sangre Negra and three of his men terrorizing a farm family a short way out of town. In a blazing 25-minute gunfight, one of the bandits was killed. But when the posse rushed the farmhouse, Sangre Negra and the others were gone. Two days later reinforcements killed his two henchmen a few miles away. But still no Sangre Negra. Back they went with dogs to search around the farmhouse. There he was, dead...
Jessup's book is short, but all his characters seem clearly drawn. Or, more accurately, we know them all--probably because they all appeared in The Gunfight at Dry Gulch on the late show the other night. Lancey is The Fastest Gun in the West. The knot of poker dilettantes who watch The Game are the drunks who scamper out the door of the Golden Horseshoe Saloon before the showdown gunfight...
...Army vehemently denied that its bullets had caused anything like 300 casualties. Many of the injured seemed victims of their own rioting. Of 13 confirmed Panamanian dead, five died in a burning building; two were killed by Molotov cocktails. Zone police had engaged in a blazing gunfight-to prevent mobs from overrunning a U.S. housing project inside the Zone. But the Army insisted that only nine rounds in all had been fired by regular troops at snipers during the first night-and the G.I.s were now using blanks, hoping to scare them...