Word: murderers
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...York state police. In a new book, Unnatural Death (Random House; $17.95), he and co- author Judith Adler Hennessee present a fascinating and disturbing picture of a shamefully inadequate U.S. coroner system. About 7% of the 2 million Americans who die annually meet an untimely end, by murder, suicide or accident. By law, such deaths must be investigated. Though the public may believe that every coroner is a skilled sleuth like television's Quincy, fewer than 400 forensic pathologists -- medical doctors with advanced training in anatomy, laboratory testing and legal-medical investigation -- are on public payrolls; twelve states...
...result, the guilty often go free. People get away with murder in about a third of the 20,000 deaths identified as homicides each year; other murders go undetected. Misinterpreted evidence can also lead to the innocent being punished. Even worse, people are sometimes jailed for crimes that never occurred. The classic example: when an alcoholic dies after a fight, the police often assume that the assault killed him, but a careful autopsy may show a lethal level of alcohol in the blood. Bungled investigations can also create lasting controversies. Mistakes in the autopsy of John F. Kennedy fueled charges...
...first reports of Higgins' murder, the President cut short a Western- states speechmaking trip to return to Washington. He quickly conveyed his sorrow and outrage in a phone call to Higgins' wife Robin, a Marine public affairs officer. But throughout the week Bush was careful to apply a lesson that had been painfully learned by Jimmy Carter: never let a hostage crisis appear to consume the presidency. The President went to unusual lengths to create what might be called a mood of concerned normalcy, acting as host at a barbecue for members of Congress, playing tennis, even attending a ball...
...their success, more and more lawyers and organizations are entering the struggle. After lengthy legal battles this year, the Alexandra Five, charged with treason for trying to create autonomous local government structures, were acquitted, and last year the Sharpeville Six, sentenced to hang for their part in the murder of a black township official, obtained commutations of their death sentences. Perhaps the biggest advance is the recent working paper of a government-appoint ed law commission, which has proposed a South African Bill of Rights, an end to apartheid laws and an equal vote for all South Africans...
President Bush effectively postponed the murder of American hostage Joseph J. Cicippio not by holding his tail between his legs, but by threatening retaliatory strikes against the Lebanese extremists responsible...