Word: heinousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...respect for the state they helped destroy, the Soviets should own up to one of their war-time atrocities. Specifically, they should end the half century-long cover-up of a heinous crime in the Katyn forest...
...Phil Caruso, president of New York City's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association: "These are sound decisions, in keeping with what's happening on our streets today. We're talking about teenagers who have reached the age of intellectual maturity, who can distinguish right from wrong and who have committed heinous acts of premeditated, deliberate murder. They should suffer the full consequences." In a nationwide poll conducted for TIME and CNN last week, those responding expressed strong disapproval of the death penalty for the retarded, although a majority supported executing teenagers...
...could defend myself by saying that my ethical failings are somehow not as qualitatively reprehensible as, say, dumping toxic waste for profit. But if the deeds are not equally heinous, the violations of principle are. Either you believe that right supercedes riches...
...Thin Blue Line, which has enjoyed a cultlike popularity since its release last summer. Despite a lower-court recommendation at a hearing last December that Adams be retried, and even though the companion who accused him has all but confessed to the murder, the board concluded that the heinous nature of the crime dictated that Adams should remain in prison...
McGinniss now moves from the heinous to the despicable. Blind Faith is a highly stylized account of an upscale murder case in a small town on the edge of the Pine Barrens that, like so many New Jersey backwaters, has gone from quiet ruburb to bustling suburb in the past two decades. On the night of Sept. 7, 1984, Maria Marshall, 42, was shot to death while sitting in the family Cadillac. Husband Robert O. Marshall claimed he had parked the vehicle in a dark picnic area off the Garden State Parkway to inspect a tire. He further maintained that...