Word: murdered
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...scandal is over. Which means that the TV pundits are having to get reacquainted with issues like school vouchers, and the all-news channels are discovering once again that--except for the times when we're unraveling a President's sex life, watching a former NFL star beat a murder rap or bombing Iraq--not all that many people want to watch news...
...member of the Bellofatto family, I am responding to the eulogy for Sean Sellers written by Bianca Jagger [NOTEBOOK, Feb. 15]. [Jagger described Sellers' execution for murder, stating that he suffered from a mental disorder.] Before murdering his parents, Sellers at the age of 16 killed Robert Bowers, a convenience-store clerk who wouldn't sell him beer. Sellers later murdered his own mother Vonda Bellofatto and his stepfather Paul Lee Bellofatto in their sleep. It was not until after Sellers' final bid for appeal was turned down by the state of Oklahoma and his capital-punishment sentence became inevitable...
...they gather to watch a double-feature on their big-screen TV. First up is the Bette Davis classic "Now, Voyager" about a Boston spinster who finds romance after therapy. Then stick around for "The Talk of the Town," starring Cary Grant as a self-proclaimed anarchist framed for murder. Graduate Student Lounge, Lehman Hall, Harvard Yard. 495-2255. "Now, Voyager" at 6 p.m. "The Talk of the Town" at 8 p.m. FREE...
Although the recent upswing in capital punishment has put the spotlight on a parade of evildoers, they have tended to come straight out of Central Casting : poor, lower-class hard-luck cases for whom murder was the defining moment of their lives -- think Karla Faye Tucker, or Texas dragging murderer James William King. But the death sentence handed down Tuesday to former state prosecutor and political adviser Thomas Capano for the murder of a secretary to the governor of Delaware brings the death penalty to a far more rarefied social stratum. Indeed, when was the last time a rich, powerful...
...present himself as an appealing human being," says Cohen. "People were outraged by the viciousness of the crime and the underlying relationships" -- which involved not only the three-year adulterous affair that Capano had with the victim, Anne Marie Fahey, but the fact that he tried to pin her murder on yet another mistress. Capano, who steadfastly refused to express any remorse, "systematically and contemptuously degraded" everyone involved in his trial, said Judge William Swain Lee as he handed down the sentence. And as a jury in Jasper, Tex., could have told you a few weeks back, nothing cuts across...