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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most horrible of murder cases, there is no suitable punishment other than death, Marini said...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Polls, Experts Debate Death Penalty | 4/13/1999 | See Source »

...vicious murder of Matthew Shephard in Wyoming last fall captured national attention and highlighted the nationwide trend of increased violence against gays and lesbians. On April 6, the Associated Press reported that the number of suspected anti-gay murders had more than doubled over the last year, as did the number of victims of anti-gay violence who required hospitalization. The use of weapons such as guns, knives, clubs, and bats in those attacks rose by double-digit percentages. Meanwhile, the "homosexual panic" defense--"He came on to me, I lost my mind"--continues to prove successful in winning acquittals...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: A Moral Obligation | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...poison unleashed by Hitler and his terrible contemporary Joseph Stalin survives. Not only must we still mourn, at century's end, the tens of millions who died as a result of their actions, but we can still see in many parts of the world, from Kosovo to Rwanda, murderous echoes of Hitler's theories and policies, promoted through methods of mass communication and propaganda invented by Joseph Goebbels. The essence of Hitlerism--racism, ethnic hatred, extreme nationalism, state-organized murder--is still alive, still causing millions of deaths. Freedom is the century's most powerful idea, but the struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Be the Person of the Century? | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

Rather than say it's the destruction of a people by murder, forced migration and contamination with salivary disorders, news people like to say "ethnic cleansing" nowadays...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Why Life Is a Scam | 4/6/1999 | See Source »

INDICTED. SEAN CARROLL, 35, EDWARD MCMELLON, 26, KENNETH BOSS, 27 and RICHARD MURPHY, 26, New York City police officers who fired 41 shots at unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo last month, setting off a storm of protests; on charges of second-degree murder; in the Bronx, New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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