Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tame talkathon is directed against a civil rights bill that would make it a federal crime to commit violence-including murder-against members of racial and religious minorities trying to exercise their civil rights. The bill, already approved by the House, was the Senate's "pending business" when the current session opened. With teams of Southern Senators sharing the speaking, rarely heard by more than one or two colleagues, the bill is still pending...
...first hint of brutality and murder at the farms. Shortly after Governor Winthrop Rockefeller took office in 1967, he released a 67-page state-police prison report, ordered and then suppressed by former Governor Orval Faubus, that painted a picture of hell in Arkansas. To maintain discipline, prisoners were beaten with leather straps, blackjacks, hoses. Needles were shoved under their fingernails, and cigarettes were applied to their bodies. For the truly unregenerate, there was the "Tucker telephone," a form of electric-shock torture used by James Bruton, former superintendent of the Tucker prison farm. A prisoner was strapped...
...army shoots reformers on the spot as so-called Communists, then violence is already institutionalized." The missing clerics are even more unrepentant. This week the National Catholic Reporter published a letter by Father Thomas Melville, in which he argued that Guatemala's poor were being oppressed and even murdered by the government. "My brother and I," he said, "decided not to be silent accomplices to the mass murder that this system generates...
...Chamber. When Gary Lee Miller, 17, was charged with the bludgeon murder of Judy Lee Ziegler, 20, few of the folks in Allegany County, Md., doubted that he was guilty. After all, he knew Judy and had been seen walking along the same road that Judy had been driving on the murder night. What's more, he was a strange, unpopular kid and had been convicted of rape three years before. There was so much prejudice against him that his court-appointed attorney doubted that an impartial jury could be impaneled. Rather than risk it, he asked that...
Esherick was an adopted child (at age one), and he had generally been a good student and son. But in the year or so before the murder, he had grown increasingly resentful of strict parental regulations. His grades dropped, and he was discovered stealing money on his newspaper route. The day before the murder, he asked a friend to help him knock out his parents so he could run away. Recalled the friend: "I thought he was out of his tree...