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Given that bias, it is even harder for a lawyer to call it self-defense when a woman shoots a sleeping husband. The danger was hardly immediate, prosecutors argue, nor was the lethal response reasonable. Evidence about battered-woman syndrome may be the only way to persuade a jury to identify with a killer. "Battered women are extraordinarily sensitive to cues of danger, and that's how they survive," says Walker. "That is why many battered women kill, not during what looks like the middle of a fight, but when the man is more vulnerable or the violence is just...
...October 1990, party leader L.K. Advani escalated his campaign: he led a 6,200-mile procession across India in support of the movement to build the Rama temple. Lethal riots followed, but the extremist spasm had its desired effect. In 1991 the Bharatiya Janata Party won four state governments and 119 seats in the lower house, which made it the official opposition to Rao's ruling Congress Party...
...interviewed Lozano myself twice," Gutheilsaid. "This was a very lethal guy--people wouldhave to have guts to treat him. The Lozanofamily...was able to pretend that, instead ofbeing a dangerous, suicidal junkie, he was abright young...
...illustrate, prisoners usually start with July 22, 1991. At 12:10 a.m. on that date, Whitley presided over Louisiana's final execution by electric chair. Later the same day, orders reached the prison metal shop to construct the gurney that would henceforth be used for lethal injections. Two inmate welders balked; then 375 convicts joined their "work buck." Confronted by every warden's worst nightmare -- a prisoner rebellion -- Whitley did the unthinkable: he backed down. He publicly called the idea a bad one and said a private contractor would build the table instead. "He admitted he was wrong," says lifer...
There are two main arguments against randomization. For one, some gay, bisexual and lesbian students may feel uncomfortable living any where but the "tolerant" houses. One Adams resident told The Crimson as much last December. Secondly, some contend that losing house variety would be lethal to our community. After all, what would student life be like without the wild transvestism of Adams' Drag Night, the reckless carousing of Dunster's Trick or Drink or the opulence of the Eliot Fete...