Word: lifer
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...before, Harris, 31, had been given the death penalty for murdering a prison guard during a 1974 riot at Alabama's horrendously overcrowded Atmore prison farm. The jury had not bought Defense Attorney Dees' argument that Harris was singled out because under Alabama law, a lifer who commits first-degree murder must be sentenced to death. Harris was the only lifer involved in the riot. The scribbling that Dees did during his frighteningly industrious drive back from the trial was an outline for Harris' appeal. It will argue that the verdict went against the weight...
...hear Mosiello working away at an IBM Selectric in his book-packed 5-ft. by 7-ft. cell. Like any other ambitious executive, he hopes his overtime labors are a signal to his superiors that he is ready for upward, to say nothing of outward mobility. Says the mustached lifer: "I didn't find a home when I came to prison. I want to unusual myself right out of this place...
...attack, they would be directly in the line of fire. Their captors, in fact, were no strangers to killing. They were all serving time for murder or assault to murder. Their leader, Fred Gomez Carrasco, 34, who had been injured in a shootout with police, was a lifer suspected of killing dozens of people in Texas and Mexico. Ignacio Cuevas, 42, was serving a 45-year stretch. Rudolfo Dominguez, 27, had been sentenced to 15 years. Death was very much on their minds-then" hostages' death, their own, anybody's. Repeatedly, they threatened to shoot their captives outright...
...Even Randolph Hearst has begun to despair. "We have hope," he says, "but it is not too bright now." He is willing to clutch at any straw and search anywhere for an intermediary who can put him in touch with the S.L.A. He recently visited Clifford Jefferson, a black lifer at Vacaville known as "Death Row Jeff' who knew Cinque very well. Hearst has even talked with a number of psychics in a vain effort to turn up clues...
...Colonel Theodore Guy [June 11] is a disgrace to the Air Force, all P.O.W.s and the United States of America. He is not "a stiff-backed professional officer," he is a "lifer" in the true sense. How one man in his right mind can request that eight individuals who suffered much the same hardships as he did be court-martialed is beyond my belief...