Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thursday, December 31 KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A murder mystery starring Roddy McDowall. Color...
...cried: "You, leader of the martyred Resistance fighters who died in cellars, look with your empty eye sockets at all the women in black who now keep watch over our companions!" Malraux closed with an appeal to the 16 million Frenchmen who have been born since Moulin's murder: "Think of him, youth of France, as you would hold out your hands to his poor deformed face on that last day, to his lips that did not speak. On that day, his face was the face of France...
Absurd Contradictions. The vote completed the work begun in the Homicide Act of 1957, which defined only certain types of murder as capital crimes while prescribing a life sentence for most other types. Thus a man could still be hanged if he stole from as well as killed his victim, or if he killed a policeman or a prison official, or more than one person, but not for other forms of murder. This resulted in ab surd situations where a killer who slew little children got away with imprisonment; yet if he took as little as a shilling from...
...accused of killing his wife and daughter and was executed, although in court he named Prosecution Witness John Chris tie as the guilty man. Three years later, Christie was revealed as the slayer of six women, and a month before his own execution, he confessed to the murder of Evans' wife...
Limited Time. Once Britain abolishes the death penalty, only two countries in Western Europe-France and Spain-will still retain capital punishment. None of the other abolition countries have faced a sharp rise in the incidence of murder, which suggests to the abolitionists that the death penalty never acted as a notable deterrent. Even so, Tory Henry Brooke urged that the bill, if it became an act, should be brought before both Houses of Parliament again in five years' time, adding, "I believe that bold experiment subject to a time limit is the right course to take." When...