Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Drag is the hallmark of this unwieldy film, and we're not talking about Lady Chablis. Clint Eastwood's lumbering adaptation of John Berendt's bestseller falls short of expectations, rendering the unique pantheon of Savannah personalities as mere cartoons and focusing too much on a long, drawn-out murder trial. John Cusack fumbles through the role of the script's too-young, too-straight stand-in for Berendt's narrator. But despite these flaws, Kevin Spacey shines as Jim Williams, the enigmatic gay antiques dealer who kills his lover in what may or may not have been selfdefense...
...young Soweto Township toughs who called themselves the Mandela United Football Club and acted as her bodyguards. In 1988 the gang abducted four youths from a township mission house, and one of them, a 14-year-old activist nicknamed Stompie (Afrikaans for cigarette butt) Seipei, was later found murdered. The "coach" of the "football team," Jerry Richardson, was convicted of the murder...
During the course of her trial, some of the defendants and witnesses disappeared, and later some said they had perjured themselves to protect Madikizela-Mandela. From his prison cell, Richardson claimed she not only ordered Seipei's murder but also told him to kill another youngster, a girl she believed to be a police informer. Last week Katiza Cebekhulu, who said he was smuggled out of the country to prevent his giving testimony linking her to a number of Soweto murders, was one of more than 40 people called by the Truth Commission to testify to the activities of Winnie...
JOHANNESBURG: Winnie Mandela may have dismissed allegations by her former comrades in the anti-apartheid movement that she had been involved in the murder of black activists, but her political career appears to be facing one of its greatest ever crises...
...very little evidence exists that capital punishment actually deters murder. While deterrence is always difficult to demonstrate, little research has indicated any diminution in crime due to the institution of the death penalty. While the gas chamber may strike fear in the hearts of many, hardened criminals will carry out murders regardless of the draconian nature of the punishment...