Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed like the murder of Matthew Shepard might have been enough. It seemed like the sight of a young man strung up on a fence post by vicious killers simply because he was gay might have been enough to prompt the state legislature in Wyoming to enact hate-crimes legislation. In the wake of the killing, in the wake of the national outcry that followed, it seemed like the obvious fact--that violence motivated by racial, ethnic or sexual bias warrants extra punishment--was on the verge of acceptance...
Muhammad added that for black people, music hasbecome a "vehicle" for success. But, he said, "if[a drug dealer-turned-rapper's] video glamorizesthe violence and the murder, maybe you'veeliminated one criminal but you've created 30,000more across the country...
...July 3, 1982, on the basis of this overwhelming evidence, Jamal was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Officer Faulkner. Since that judgement was handed down by a jury, his cause has been embraced by a circus of characters, from the entertainment industry to anti-death-penalty activists to the radical left. Of course, to call the plight of Jamal a "cause" is a generous concession. Those who champion his innocence stand on shaky ground at best...
...original trial to declare that a mysterious man shot Faulkner and fled just before Jamal arrived to help and was accidentally shot when Faulkner's gun inexplicably discharged. Another defense asset, Veronica Jones, remained silent for 14 years until declaring that she saw two men fleeing from the murder. She recalls that at the time she was two blocks away from the actual crime scene and "half a nickel bag high...
...There's a real variety of opportunities in private practice," said Seth C. Farber '86, who told students that his clients range "from CEOs to people accused of murder...