Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the state itself kills," said Attorney General Ramsey Clark, "the. mandate 'Thou shalt not kill' loses the force of the absolute." Giving the Administration's backing for abolition of the federal death penalty, Clark told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that "state-inflicted death chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle." In failing to abolish the death penalty nationwide, the U.S. lags behind 73 foreign countries as well as 13 of its own states,* which have abolished the death sentence...
...Dove, 33, a program analyst for the U.S. Budget Bureau, devised his own quiz. Wryly known as the "Soul Folk Chitlings Test," it is cast with a black, rather than a white, bias. Some of his 30 black imponderables prove extremely difficult for Whitey: 1) Whom did "Stagger Lee" kill (in the famous blues legend)? a) His mother, b) Frankie, c) Johnny, d) His girl friend, e) Billy...
...kill Dr. King...
...acting for the U.S., presented circumstantial evidence against the man whom U.S. authorities identified as Ray. For 90 minutes, Calcutt read into the record depositions and affidavits pointing to him as the rifleman who pulled the trigger in a second-floor bathroom of a shabby Memphis rooming house to kill King...
...images. As revealed in a series of shuffled flashbacks, the groom and the bride (Jeanne Moreau) trip happily down the steps of a church and smile at the wedding party's photographer. A shot rings out, and the new husband falls. Five men are responsible for the killing, a group of drinking and hunting cronies who played with a gun until one of them accidentally became the trigger man. The thought of revenge becomes an idée fixe as the bride pathologically tracks down the handful of murderers. Before the kill she tells them...