Word: indictibility
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...population is black. In general, in certain parts of the United States, some groups sadly constitute a much higher proportion of the criminal population than of the general one. If we assert the inherent racism of capital punishment, we have to declare incarceration to be racist; indeed, we must indict our justice system as a whole...
...sensitive direction allows the film both to indict and to forgive these characters at the same time. The presence of sin is unmistakable--even the name of the town, New Canaan, has Biblical implications--but no one really bears the blame. Many of the characters' actions seem harmless enough until they're in too deep to turn around. Ben and Janey's affair is so casual and matter-of-fact that it's easy to forget the pain they are causing others, and even themselves...
Today, treaties simply prohibit nations from using such warfare, Meselson says. But he advocates harsher measures so that nations may indict and try individuals responsible for biological warfare...
...received. But a jury in the District of Columbia, a city known for its skepticism toward government prosecutors, may wonder how much the public good was compromised. Says a Washington lawyer who has gone up against Smaltz: "Espy may have been foolish, stupid, negligent, even reckless. But to indict him for being good-time Charlie and not be able to show a quid pro quo" will hurt Smaltz's case. Smaltz did persuade a court to impose a $1.5 million fine on Sun-Diamond Growers for providing Espy with illegal gratuities. But his fraud case against Espy's brother...
...grand jury refused last week to indict Banuelos for shooting Hernandez, ruling that he had acted properly in defense of his fellow soldiers. But what remains unresolved--the question that has sent powerful tremors from the adobe-and-cinder-block foundations of Redford to the Defense Department in Washington--is whether the Marines should have been there in the first place...