Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senator Robert Torricelli were distributing a press release to reporters calling for tighter gun control. Weston, after emergency surgery during the night, lapsed into a coma and was placed on a ventilator. On Saturday morning doctors gave him a fifty-fifty chance of surviving. He was charged with the murder of two federal police officers, a death-penalty crime. Police and FBI agents blocked access to the Weston home in Valmeyer, and the phone was disconnected...
...article, "Dead Teen Walking," a sobering account of youngsters on death row. In their story Willwerth, a Los Angeles-based correspondent, and Farley, a senior writer, raised some troubling questions about the conduct of prosecutors in the trial of Shareef Cousin, a black New Orleans teenager convicted of murder and sentenced, at age 16, to death. In part because of their investigation, a Louisiana state supreme court has granted Cousin a new trial, tentatively scheduled for December. Says Willwerth: "Having the chance to help right an injustice is a precious thing. I feel very lucky that journalism gives me that...
...tests. He calls them the "Yekaterinburg remains," a reference to the town in the Urals where the imperial family was killed in the early hours of July 17, 1918. President Boris Yeltsin--who as Communist Party chief there in 1977 had destroyed the site of the massacre--denounced the murder during his funeral address but stuck to the official church description of the remains as innocent and unnamed victims...
...element of compassion in their mission. But there's an element of news management as well: the upper levels of government don't want to burden the home front with another shocking story of loss. "I asked myself throughout, Is this a mission of mercy or a mission of murder?" says Spielberg. "But I can't answer that question. I don't think anyone...
...Emmy sidelights: Phil Hartman, shot to death by his wife May 28 in a murder-suicide, was nominated as best supporting actor for his work in "NewsRadio." Jerry Seinfeld, however was snubbed (though his show wasn't; it's in the running for best comedy series). Emmy also turned her back on "Friends," though Lisa Kudrow received a supporting actress bid. "Homicide: Life on the Street" again was bypassed for a drama nomination. As for "Ellen," the show may have been canceled, but its star Ellen DeGeneres was nominated...