Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Black Judas." Who did it? An official Algerian government report fingered Bodenan, 42, who served ten years in a French prison on a murder conviction. According to the Algerian investigators, Bodenan drew a silencer-equipped automatic pistol, shot at (but apparently did not hit) the first passenger who moved, and singlehanded took over the plane. So far, there is no evidence the others were in on the plot. The motive was most likely money: anyone who succeeded in delivering Tshombe to Mobutu could count on becoming very rich...
Great Britain did away with the death penalty in murder cases in November 1965. Almost by reflex, advocates of capital punishment then argued that without the deterrence of executions, the number of killings would soar. For those who judge by headlines, it looked for a while as if the critics might be right. British papers seemed to overflow with stories about THREE POLICEMEN SHOT DEAD and TWO LITTLE GIRLS MURDERED...
...murder rate holds steady until 1970, when Parliament is scheduled to review the effects of the suspension, the government is extremely unlikely to call for the restoration of capital punishment. Besides, every execution device in Britain has been dismantled, with the sole exception of the gallows at Wands-worth Prison. It is kept in readiness to dispatch the few offenders still liable to the death sentence-traitors, and those guilty of the arcane crimes of arson in Her Majesty's dockyards and piracy with violence...
Glorious Blaze. The Wobbly martyrs had a flair for last words. Convicted on debatable evidence of the murder...
...beautiful woman who has but one aim in life: to find a sailor from Gibraltar, who she feels was the love of her life. As she remembers him, he was no ordinary navvy: at 20, when they had their stormy affair, he was fleeing French law for "the murder of the American ballbearings king, Nelson Nelson." Though she has had no word of him in years, her yacht, with its crew of seven, seeks him in ports on the seven seas without a scintilla of rational evidence...