Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kevorkian is acquitted, it will be a major p.r. victory for the right to die. If he loses, he has vowed to starve himself to death in jail. Either way, Death will get plenty of headlines--but his spin doctor will probably get even more...
Remedies in antitrust suits can be tricky. No one's going to jail (at least not based on this civil lawsuit), and the point of the suit isn't to get fines or money damages. If the Justice Department prevails, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson would have to rewrite the rules of engagement so that Microsoft could no longer unfairly exploit its dominant market position. And that could even mean what every Microsoft hater truly lusts for: a breakup of the company...
...they go," he said, "or I go." Kevorkian has been tried and acquitted three times on assisted suicide charges; his lawyer says he now wants to force a "high noon" confrontation with the police. If convicted, the self-styled Dr. Death says he will starve himself to death in jail...
...then, do we keep felony disenfranchisement laws at all? One possible reason is that disenfranchisement is a form of retribution: By violating the laws of the land, criminals are deprived of the right to make them. But as a punishment, disenfranchisement is both ineffective and gratuitously cruel. Unlike jail time, it does not prevent the offender from committing additional crimes, nor does it have much deterrent effect. Permanent disenfranchisement does not even serve the Old Testament call for an-eye-for-an-eye retribution; a system in which the murderer suffers the same penalty as the shoplifter cannot be just...
...Boatwrights of Bastard, a lively and tightly-knit group of ne'er-do-wells, the Johnsons are isolated from their extended family and ruthless towards each other, each one capable of horrible acts of cruelty. The main culprit is the father, Bill Sr., a vicious drunk who between jail stints beats his wife and children and sexually abuses his daughter Jean. Billy Jr., the dead man of the title, responds to the abuse by becoming his father's replica, repeating his father's acts first with Jean, then with his own family. Jean, the youngest and most vulnerable member...