Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court went Gilbert Athay and Robert Van Sciver, lawyers for two other death-row inmates. The pair argued that the U.S. Constitution requires automatic review of the death penalty by the Utah Supreme Court. Both arguments were rejected. Athay then unsuccessfully appealed to the 10th circuit court in Salt Lake City...
...most lugubrious request was a petition by the Salt Lake City Tribune and television station KUTV that the federal court should break the state's 82-year-old ban on press attendance at executions and let them, the Deseret News and two other TV stations cover Gilmore's death. There was a precedent for the claim since a Texas court ruled three weeks ago that a Dallas television station had the right to film an execution at the state prison. The judge in Utah ruled, however, that the Tribune and KUTV had no particular right to cover...
...around the prison, 20 miles south of Salt Lake City, security was tight. Religious groups announced plans to hold a vigil outside the prison, and the war den was worried about the possibility that demonstrators might try to storm the prison in order to stop the execution. Several helicopters were reserved by reporters and cameramen, but the Federal Aviation Administration banned all aircraft from the area. The execution site is a closely guarded secret. Even the five-man firing squad will not know the location until shortly before the event. Afterward, according to the plan, a hearse will transport Gilmore...
After years of costly court fights, Reserve was ordered by a U.S. district court last summer (TIME, July 26) to end its pollution of the lake by next July 7. At present, the company is fighting with the state of Minnesota over possible sites for on-land disposal plants. Unless Reserve gets the site it wants (seven miles from Silver Bay, v. a site 20 miles distant proposed by the state), it is threatening to close down its Silver Bay plant -and in effect the town itself. The fight has engulfed neighboring communities. Citizens of Duluth...