Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's capital became its murder capital in 1988, with 372 slayings. This year has started out even worse: 93 killings as of Saturday, vs. 55 at the same point a year ago. To stop the slaughter, the D.C. city council voted last week to impose a 90-day curfew on children under 18. Those caught after 11 p.m. (midnight on weekends) would be hauled to police stations; parents of repeat offenders would be fined. Police are skeptical. In murder cases, says Police Chief Maurice Turner, the "average victim is 31, and the average perpetrator is over...
...when Robert E. Taliaferro Jr. was transferred from Wisconsin, where he was serving time for murder, he became a Mirror reporter. He quickly learned the dynamics of his new editorial responsibility. "My editor wrote a story about how inmates were smuggling reefer in here in balloons," Taliaferro recalls. "I told him, 'You don't sit up here and put that stuff in the newspaper. You wanna get yourself killed...
...like himself, were convicted of capital offenses and therefore face long prison terms. "Short-timers have an ax to grind. They never learn anything in here. They blame everyone else, and they just can't wait to get out and screw up again. Then they come back. I committed murder. Homicide. I put myself in here. I take that responsibility, and I will deal with that...
...exclusive interview from his jail cell in Salem, Mass., fugitive banker George Koskotas finally tells his tale of the worst political and financial scandal to hit Greece in 40 years. -- In Venezuela economic austerity measures provoke an orgy of rioting and murder. -- President Bush stumbles on the nettlesome issue of human rights during his trip to China...
Middlesex Assistant District Attorney George Murphy must have felt left out. Cambridge District Court Judge Lawrence P. Feloney '43-'46 told him that unless Middlesex Superior Court Judge Hiller B. Zobel '53 arraigned an alleged murder suspect soon, Feloney would dismiss the charges. Murphy's response: "I don't want to get caught between two Harvard...