Word: parolee
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It's not often that a prisoner is hap-py to be denied parole. But Aïssa Mesbah may have felt that way last week when he learned that his early release from Muret Prison in Toulouse, where he's seven years into a 12-year sentence for attempted...
John Ashcroft's aggressive pursuit of the death penalty may be backfiring. A U.S. district judge in Vermont last week ruled the federal death penalty unconstitutional, arguing that the law violates defendants' due-process rights because it allows looser procedures and standards of evidence in sentencing than are allowed at...
DIED. ANGELO BUONO JR., 67, serial killer whose habit of dumping his female victims' nude bodies on hillsides near his suburban Los Angeles home earned him the nickname "Hillside Strangler"; at Calipatria State Prison in Sacramento. Convicted in 1983 of murdering nine young women in 1977 and 1978, Buono was...
CONVICTED. DAVID WESTERFIELD, 50, of the February kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old neighbor Danielle van Dam; in San Diego. He faces a death sentence or life in prison without parole.
SENTENCED. JOSEPH MESA JR., 22, former Gallaudet University student convicted in May of the brutal murder of two of his fellow students, Eric Plunkett and Benjamin Varner, in their dorm rooms in September 2000 and February 2001 (see TIME, June 25, 2001); to six life-without-parole terms in prison...