Word: murderes
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SEOUL, South Korea: A three-judge panel sentenced former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan to death for mutiny and murder and sentenced his successor, Roh Tae-woo, to 22 1/2 years for participation in mutiny. The landmark decision puts a cap on an era of corruption and oligarchical politics that had gripped the country throughout the 1980's. The two convicted men were boyhood friends who rose through the military and as generals staged a coup in 1979, placing Chun into the presidency. Six months later, Chun ordered a brutal crackdown of pro-democracy uprisings in the Kwang...
...have a saying in the movement that you don't want the weekend patriot--you want his kid," he observes. "I took a long look at my two sons. If my oldest is that radical now, he and his brother might be Order members some day. They'll murder people because of their skin color, religion or sexual preference. They'll go to jail, maybe die. My kids will be sacrificed. The idea hurt." Last fall he left Nicole, with whom he is now engaged in a bitter custody battle, and returned to California to live with his mother...
...latest chapter in the life of PATTY HEARST, she's a novelist. Murder at San Simeon, written with fellow rebel blue blood Cordelia Frances Biddle, is the story of a death on the property of granddad William Randolph Hearst. "My parents never talked about him," says the novelist. "Except that he liked animals and Citizen Kane wasn't about him." Meanwhile, F. Lee Bailey, who defended Patty--a.k.a. terrorist Tania--in the 1970s, has his own book idea. According to Variety, it will feature O.J. Simpson and Hearst, who he says breached attorney-client privilege by badmouthing...
SENTENCED. AWILDA LOPEZ, 29, to 15 years to life in prison for the murder of her six-year-old daughter, ELISA IZQUIERDO. Elisa's death, after years of sexual and physical abuse, attracted attention to the failings of the child-welfare system...
WASHINGTON: U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno released unexpected statistics showing that young people are committing fewer violent crimes for the first time in ten years. Last year, for every 100,000 juveniles, 511.9 were arrested for murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault or other violent crimes. For the previous year, the figure per 100,000 was 527.4. The 2.9 percent drop is the first decline since 1987 in the combined rate for these felonies. Murder statistics have also fallen among 10-to-17-year-olds for the second consecutive year, and are now 22.8 percent below the 1993 level. Despite...