Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recently posting a new reward for information on Joan, holding repeated press conferences to keep her case visible. But a footnote to Bonnic's case this week cast her bereaved parents in a slightly different light. After numerous legal battles, Herrin finally began serving an eight to 25-year jail term. Meanwhile, the Garlands initiated civil proceedings, suing their daughter's murderer for $2 million in damages for "emotional anguish" and funeral and medical bills. On Monday, a judge awarded them $40,000 in damages, plus another $15,000 in costs incurred by the murder...
...bring subsidiary charges to punish perpetrators adequately, the idea of "punishment to fit the crime" has blurred beyond recognition. If Herrin begins to think he's being punished not because he killed Bonnie Garland but because funeral and medical costs were high, the already much-debated effect of a jail term on future actions will be further confused...
...Garlands' long struggle with the courts to put Herrin in jail may explain and even excuse their desire to hit him as hard as they can. But it would be a shame if the sympathy they deserve obscured the perception that lies behind their suit, that a criminal penalty somehow cannot punish "enough." It's all very well for murderers to have to foot the bill for funerals they caused, but that's not one of the hardier deterrents to a crime of passion...
...wife were insulted by a right-wing judge. A gun was fired; the judge died. At Güney's hearing, men stood up to proclaim that they, not he, had killed the judge. Güney was found guilty; he remained in jail until October 1981, when he escaped to Europe. This May, on the day Güney received a Palme d'Or for Yol at the Cannes Film Festival, Turkey demanded his extradition. He now lives in hiding...
...technical expertise. The picture may thus serve as the announcement of an adroit new director in Gören, a canny marshaler of film machinery and actors' resources. But first and final credit must go to Güney. Time spent in the microcosm of a Turkish jail has educated him to the human idiosyncrasies of men under pressure. Each of Yol's characters moves to his own music, discovers his own reasons for being, refuses to be translated into a revolutionary slogan or a reactionary curse. Güney has composed, by remote control, an eloquent portrait...