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...stating that "It is difficult for me, even in the so-called year of the spy, to conceive a greater harm to national security than that caused by [Pollard]." In discussions with reporters, Weinberger had also said that Pollard "deserved to be hanged." Pollard did, in fact, receive the maximum sentence of life imprisonment--the decision to which Weinberger was clearly alluding in his sworn statement. Indeed, Pollard's lawyers later argued that Weinberger violated the terms of the plea bargain by implicitly calling for the harshest possible sentence...
...first duo they arrested the Nasty Boys, who are thought to have robbed $800,000 from 28 banks since October 1991. The pair, Clarence Sanders, 21, and Harold Walden, 19, were convicted of five of the robberies in November. Prosecutors and the FBI expect the two to get the maximum penalty of 75 years apiece when they appear for sentencing next month...
...What you have done is thoroughly evil," pronounced U.S. District Judge Garrett Brown as he sentenced Arthur D. Seale to the maximum: 95 years in prison, without parole. Seale, 45, an ex-Exxon employee, kidnapped senior Exxon official Sidney Reso in his own driveway and stuffed him, bound and bleeding, into a storage locker while negotiating his ransom. The entombed Reso slowly died an agonizing death. Seale and his wife Irene were tracked down by investigators. It was she who divulged the damning details of the kidnapping, and is now in prison, soon to face her own sentencing...
...reason can be jailed for three years. But last week a motion by the Labor-led government to repeal that law cleared the first of three readings in the Knesset. Though the margin was the smallest possible, 37 to 36, final passage appears likely, since opponents made their maximum effort to defeat the repeal on the first round; the Likud Party even had five of its members hide in their cars until moments before the vote in an attempt to throw off government tallies. The government insists it still will not negotiate directly with the P.L.O., but private contacts just...
More than 25 states have laws on the books making it a misdemeanor or felony for an HIV-positive person to spread the virus through methods ranging from sexual contact to the splattering of blood. In Louisiana the malicious transmission of the AIDS virus carries a maximum punishment of $5,000 and 10 years in prison -- last month, for the first time, a man was prosecuted and convicted under the law. Lawrence Gostin, head of the U.S. AIDS Litigation Project, recommends education and counseling for HIV-infected people to convince them that they have responsibility to tell others about their...