Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, Sessum's automatic sentence of life imprisonment was the sternest punishment Mississippi has yet handed out in a racial murder case...
Lyndon Johnson-tfas his showing on election day. When McCarthy first ventured into New Hampshire, Democratic Governor John W. King, a Johnson loyalist, predicted that the President would "murder" him. Opinion samplers gave him 10% to 20%. Instead, he polled a stunning 42.2% of the Democratic vote to Johnson's 49.4%. With an addition al 5,511 Republican write-ins (McCarthy, astonishingly, ran third on the G.O.P. ticket), he trailed the President in the overall tally by a scant 230 votes...
...face from the past popped briefly into view as Carole Tregoff, 30, sentenced to life imprisonment seven years ago for the murder of her lover's wife, Barbara Jean Finch, was denied parole in California in her first hearing after becoming eligible. Dr. R. Bernard Finch, also serving a life term, gets his first hearing next month, and it is thought likely that he will get the same answer. Next time might be different. Carole can try again in 14 months, said the parole board chairman, and she will "in all likelihood" be released...
...Jorge Torrico, who offered her information if she would help him get to France, where, he said, he wanted to study. Michéle agreed. With Torrico's help, she re-created the events leading up to Che's execution in La Higuera. Those who supervised the murder, she asserts, were two CIA operatives named Ramos and Gonzales...
...plastic bubble, which, inflating like a Zeppelin, devoured them alive. Minstrels strutted, samurai cut curlicues in the air. And while filmed images slithered across a billowing screen, a man and a woman simulated lovemaking as strobe lights flickered, spotlights raked the audience, and a raga-rock band screamed bloody murder...