Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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> The U.S. Supreme Court refused without comment to hear John Ehrlichman's appeal of his conviction for engineering the White House plumbers' break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in 1971 after Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers. Ehrlichman, formerly Nixon's chief domestic...
Wilson often tailors his arguments to his audience: his writings define punishment to include progressive programs but then he states that none has been successful; he changes emphasis from violent crimes--where his theories have more legitimacy--to small-time street crime in general. But his attacks on social reforms...
Even if Gilmore lives, all of American society must accept the blame for the life he has led. Gary Gilmore's death-wish was bred by the despair of a society that has allowed him little chance to life within the law. Now 35 years old, Gilmore has spent 18...
HAD UTAH GOVERNOR Calvin Rampton not intervened last week, Gary Gilmore would have been executed this past Monday, the first person put to death in the United States since 1967. The Utah Supreme Court had already approved the death sentence in a 4-1 decision last Wednesday, and Utah state...
Aside from the consequences for death-row prisoners that may ensue from allowing the resumption of capital punishment in such extraordinary circumstances, the parole board that reexamines the court's decision should also consider the case's broader social ramifications before granting Gilmore's request.