Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Civil rights advocates had given up hope that anyone would ever be punished for the murder of N.A.A.C.P. field secretary Medgar Evers, who was gunned down in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Indicted in the killing was Byron de la Beckwith, a segregationist whose fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. But all- white juries twice failed to reach a verdict, and Beckwith went free...
...interfered in the jury selection for Beckwith's second trial. The newspaper found evidence that commission members relayed information about prospective jurors to Beckwith's lawyer. Assistant District Attorney Bobby DeLaughter is pushing for a new indictment, but that will not be easy. Many witnesses have died, and the murder weapon is missing...
...sunk to a feeble third place. Its ratings for the November "sweeps" were the lowest for any such period in its history. The ten prime-time shows CBS introduced this fall were a conservative lot, and none has been a ratings hit. Just two CBS series, 60 Minutes and Murder, She Wrote, finish regularly in the Top 20, and both are getting...
...least they could look forward to the cheering prospect of Christmas vacation afterward. That tidy calendar was suddenly and tragically shattered last week in a hail of semiautomatic rifle fire ignited by a bizarre sexual hatred. When the climactic hour ended, Canada had suffered the worst mass murder in its history...
...launching the new probe, officials said they would prosecute Nofomela for his role in Mxenge's murder. They also planned to issue a warrant for Coetzee's arrest. But tracking him down is proving to be difficult. Coetzee, who apparently made his confession out of fear that his former superiors would try to make him a scapegoat, fled the country last month, and has been variously reported living in Europe, elsewhere in Africa and on the island of Mauritius...