Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Murder in a seaport city with Jack Lord and Shirley Knight...
Life for a Life. The 1966 bill, going even beyond its predecessors, would make the murder of a civil rights worker, or the slaying, for racial reasons, of anyone else exercising certain fundamental rights, such as voting or seeking to attend school, a federal crime with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. At present, the most that a defendant in such cases can get in a federal court is ten years...
Seated on folding chairs in a packed Indianapolis courtroom last week was the largest array of defendants to stand trial for a single murder in Indiana his tory. It was also one of the most bizarre: a wispy-haired 90-lb. woman, three of her children and two teen-age neighbor boys. As outlined by police, their story seemed almost unbelievably ugly...
...December, a grand jury indicted Gertrude Baniszewski, Paula, Stephanie and John Jr., along with Hubbard and Hobbs, on charges of first-degree murder. (Under Indiana law, minors face the same maximum penalty for murder as adults: the electric chair.) As the trial got under way last week before a jury of eight men and four women, Mrs. Baniszewski, John Jr. and Hubbard pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity; Paula, Stephanie and Ricky pleaded simply not guilty. Upstairs in an anteroom sat Sylvia's parents, still not comprehending how and why it had happened. Sitting sunken-cheeked in court...
...page done. I can't see! I can't hear! God!" "Something is dying in me to make this book live on paper." Unfortunately, Grubb was unable to keep such anguished hyperbole confined to his journal. It gushes throughout the book, which is about the lynch-murder of a Negro boy in a small Southern town. At its best, Grubb's imagery is impressive and his prose is lyrical. But his uncontrolled bombast, his near-hysterical characters, and his determination to leave no grit unhominized often make the cliché-ridden novel read like a bad parody...