Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...murder weapon and other key evidence in the trial of the killer of Bill Cosby's son Ennis were unearthed with the help of (a) specially trained police dogs (b) psychics (c) the National Enquirer (d) FBI forensics experts...
This appreciation that life is complicated and people are funny has burst on our politics in other ways that most seers, professional and amateur, failed to predict. Tolerance of gays is an example. Despite horrible episodes like this year's torture-murder of Matthew Shepard, the general public is clearly losing patience with homophobia. Even the most obviously prejudiced politician or anti-gay political activist now feels obliged to deny any anti-gay bias, even when demonstrating one. It would be nice if this was because people concluded that gays are perfectly normal. But it's even better if people...
...South Carolina on behalf of the President. Meanwhile, in a Los Angeles courtroom, the voluminous MARLON BRANDO joined the volatile SEAN PENN to protest prosecutors' efforts to send former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt back to jail. Pratt was released last year after spending 27 years behind bars for a murder he says he didn't commit...
...welfare state. Baby boomers turned toward religion. Increasingly the country turned away from gay bashing and other low-life thinking, as was indicated by the national revulsion at the beating to death of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo. No one was more repelled by the truck-dragging murder of James Byrd Jr., a black man in Jasper, Texas, than Texans themselves...
...April 1913 the body of Mary Phagan, 13, strangled to death, was found in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. Leo Frank, the factory's manager, was arrested for the crime and, despite his protestations of innocence, convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Two years later, after his sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment by the Governor of Georgia, Frank was taken from his prison cell by persons unknown and lynched. Because Frank was Jewish, his case became a nationwide cause celebre for Jewish groups and political figures crusading against anti-Semitism...