Word: jail
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...McCARTHY, antiwar presidential candidate, retired from the U.S. Senate in 1970. He won 30,074 votes in 1988 as presidential candidate of the Pennsylvania-based Consumer Party. -- HUEY P. NEWTON, cofounder of the Black Panthers served three years in prison for shooting an Oakland policeman. In and out of jail since, he was released from San Quentin this summer after serving two months for parole violations. -- JAMES EARL RAY, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He escaped briefly in 1977 and continues to maintain that he was framed...
Judges have traditionally enjoyed such leeway in meting out jail terms that one prisoner could serve many times as long as another for a similar crime. Concerned about unfair -- and often overly lenient -- sentences, Congress in 1984 created the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which issued a manual that greatly restricts judges' discretion in sentencing 40,000 federal defendants a year. The new system, for crimes committed since Nov. 1, 1987, also abolished parole and sharply limited probation and time off for good behavior...
...case decided by the Supreme Court last week, which stemmed from a 1987 Kansas City cocaine bust, the sentencing chart called for a 15-to-21- month jail term for defendant John Mistretta. The federal district court had given him 18 months, but Mistretta's lawyer argued that the sentencing system violated the Constitution by blurring the separation of powers among the branches of Government. Congress had, for instance, given both legislative and executive functions to a commission within the judicial branch. The commission's recommendations have the force of law unless Congress vetoes them within six months. Justice Harry...
Nearly three years after they were sentenced to death for the 1984 assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, gunman Satwant Singh, 25, and conspirator Kehar Singh, 53, were hanged last week in a New Delhi jail. Satwant Singh was one of the two Sikh bodyguards who shot Mrs. Gandhi; the other was killed in the shootout that followed. Five months earlier the Prime Minister had ordered the Indian army to rout Sikh terrorists holed up in the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine. Said an unrepentant Satwant: "I wish that I am born again and again...
This is nothing new. Two years ago, Barry faced difficulties caused by Karen Johnson, the woman who claimed to be Barry's mistress and may have sold him cocaine. She went to jail rather than testify against him. When she got out of jail, many alleged that friends of Barry had paid her to be quiet...