Word: heinousness
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...would-be P.M. has played the tough guy to good effect, winning broad public approval for proposals including boot camp for young offenders and the scrapping of parole for hard-core criminals. "I'm not having, on my watch, people on the streets who've committed heinous crimes," Key told a national television audience. He's also made familiar right-of-center noises on education, foreshadowing national standards for literacy and numeracy, and plain-speaking school reports. "I think it's time for a change," says Watson, 18 years a cop, "and I know some of my colleagues are hanging...
...father, who is unfailingly cheerful despite the fact that a stroke has rendered him mute. It's an inherently awkward situation, rendered much more so by the fact that Juliette has just been released from jail, where she served 15 years for an unspecified but obviously heinous crime...
...potential to embarrass the cops. ("If we're insane," says Amy Ryan as a prostitute subjected to electroshock therapy for her outspokenness, "nobody has to listen to us.") Her only ally is a preacher and radio crusader, Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich), who sees Christine's case as another heinous example of the police department's venality...
Alongside protests from civil rights groups and churches are cries of approval. Commentary on blogs and news articles and conversations among friends show a frightening sympathy with LaBruzzo’s purpose. All other heinous aspects aside, LaBruzzo and his supporters speak to America’s abominable attitude toward our poor citizens...
...Sunday Times of London featured a cover story for the newspaper's magazine section about the case that included an extensive interview with Knox's family in Seattle. Titled "Free Foxy Knoxy," the story recounted the family's insistence that Amanda could never have been involved in such a heinous act and featured a new round of photographs from her teen years in Seattle. The correspondent for the British paper, John Follain, noted that Knox's younger sister Deanna looks strikingly similar to Amanda. Like her parents, the younger daughter was forthcoming with Follain about details of her sister...