Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic! One convicted murderer is executed [April 21]-the first in a year-for killing a policeman doing his duty to protect the public, and tear-stained protesters mourn, an Episcopal bishop asks that church bells be tolled to show penitence for this "legal murder," and the American Civil Liberties Union charges that this is cruel and unusual punishment. In this same period of time, how many innocent people lost their lives through the actions of criminals who feel they have the right to rape, mug, steal and kill without consideration of what happens to their victims and without acknowledging...
After his acquittal in New Jersey last year on charges of murdering his some time mistress' husband, Dr. Carl Coppolino appeared a sure bet to beat the less likely charge that he had murdered his own wife. Since there was not even any public evidence that she had died unnaturally, the case against Coppolino seemed flimsy indeed. Yet last week, when the twelve male jurors in Naples, Fla., returned their verdict after less than four hours of deliberations, the retired physician was pronounced guilty of second-degree murder...
...patient, plodding groundwork laid by Prosecutor Frank Schaub, 45. In contrast with the flamboyant forensics of F. Lee Bailey, 33, Coppolino's cocky Boston attorney, Schaub wove a damning case showing that Coppolino had the motive, opportunity and, most of all, the scientific background for committing the murder...
...killing a brother in arms for the second time. Their victim is Michael Meiners, left for dead on the Eastern front while the other squad members deserted before the advancing Russians. Meiners' reappearance menaces the peace of men who have deliberately paved over the past, and his murder is promptly arranged. In case any reader has missed the point, Author Kirst puts it on the tongue of the detective assigned to find Meiners so that his comrades can kill him. "The criminals or accomplices of yesterday," says the investigator, "have lost all consciousness of their guilt or complicity. They...
Kirst's ultimate message is even more unrelenting than that. He specifically places the German spirit beyond redemption: it is a beast, sleeping only between wars, that will stir at any moment to do murder again. Kirst's readers, who beyond any question of guilt or conscience enjoyed the appealing roguishness of Gunner Asch, may be disconcerted to discover that his creator considers Asch a myth. What is more, they may not agree with that view...