Word: murderes
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...pending bill would restore the death penalty for first-degree murder in 12 categories, including the murder of police officers, murders associated with sexual violence and killings by those with a record of offenses. Observers say the bill has a good chance of passing the House; a similar bill has passed the Senate three times, and Gov. A. Paul Cellucci has vowed his support. This, in a state whose congressional delegation is comprised of 10 Democrats; this, in the state where the liberal William F. Weld '66 is the right wing; this, in Kennedyland...
Massachusetts conducted its last execution in 1947. The drive to reinstate the death penalty has been spurred by recent local killings, most prominently the murder and rape of Jeffrey Curley, the Cambridge 10-year-old kidnapped by two men and dumped in a plastic container in a Maine river. Curley's killing was brutal and horrific, its perpetrators sick. But killing them will do no good. When the anger over such crimes abates, we are left with a dual challenge: preventing such crimes from happening again and dealing with the sad people who caused so much pain. The fallacy...
Many claim that the death penalty helps the loved ones of homicide victims deal with their loss; yet, much as we want to alleviate their pain, we must not kill out of grief. Dorchester's Joseph Chery, a man who knows as much about the pain of murder as anyone after his young son was killed, has become an outspoken opponent of the death penalty. "As human beings, your very first impulse dictates revenge," Chery told the Boston Globe this past weekend. "But as reasonable beings, it becomes a question of repressing that first instinct, using your values, using your...
...death penalty fervor hits its height here the very week that Jiang Zemin is to visit Boston. Saturday's speech in Sanders Theatre by the Chinese president, with the massive protests and media invasion sure to accompany it, will be the biggest event at Harvard since the 1995 Dunster murder-suicide. In the context of Jiang's U.S. visit as a whole, it could also make its way into the history books...
...Matthew McCue, family friend of and spokesperson for Deborah and Sunil Eappen, on the perception that the public and the media have sided with British au pair Louise Woodward because the Eappens are doctors in prosperous Newton, Mass. Woodward, 19, is currently on trial in Cambridge for the murder of the Eappens' 8-month-old son, Matthew...