Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association: "These are sound decisions, in keeping with what's happening on our streets today. We're talking about teenagers who have reached the age of intellectual maturity, who can distinguish right from wrong and who have committed heinous acts of premeditated, deliberate murder. They should suffer the full consequences." In a nationwide poll conducted for TIME and CNN last week, those responding expressed strong disapproval of the death penalty for the retarded, although a majority supported executing teenagers...
...ruling on 16- and 17-year-olds grew out of murder cases against Kevin Stanford of Kentucky and Heath Wilkins of Missouri. Stanford was 17 in 1981 when he held up a gas station, then sodomized a female attendant and shot her in the head at point-blank range. At 16 Wilkins repeatedly stabbed a woman owner of a convenience store in the neck and chest during a 1985 robbery. Justice Scalia emphasized that the constitutionality of sentencing 16- and 17- year-olds to death depends on the "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society...
...death of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena Salazar in 1985. According to DEA informants, Zorrilla knew in advance of Camarena's kidnaping. One source added that Camarena's interrogator was in direct contact with Zorrilla. If proved, the allegations would support the theory that Camarena's murder was approved at the highest levels of the government...
After the court announced its decision last week, Joey Johnson proudly posed with charred flags. "I think it was great to see a symbol of international plunder and murder go up in flames," he said. His lawyer, David Cole, was slightly less inflammatory: "If free expression is to exist in this country, people must be as free to burn the flag as they are to wave it." Civil liberties advocates approved, though some were worried that the case had been decided by so narrow a margin. "James Madison, who wrote the First Amendment, would have his heart warmed...
...reward offered by the government. The court has been sharply criticized for agreeing to preconditions set by Lisbet Palme for her testimony, including a ban on tape recorders and television cameras. The prosecutors, whose case against Pettersson is built on circumstantial evidence, have yet to come up with a murder weapon or a motive...