Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sent to the electric chair like Frank Coppola, a fellow Virginian executed two weeks ago. At 7:25 p.m., Seigler, ushered into the courtroom of Judge William E. Spain, accepted the deal. The jury, which had sent word of a verdict, was kept waiting while Spain approved the new plea. After Seigler was led away, the judge invited the jury into the room and informed them of the guilty plea. One juror slumped in a chair, while several others just moaned. What was the matter? The jurors had already reached a verdict: not guilty...
...fourth case surfaced in Houston. Coral Eugene Watts, 28, a bus mechanic, was about to go to trial for burglary and attempted murder when authorities announced an unusual plea-bargain deal. In exchange for a 60-year sentence on the burglary charge, making him eligible for parole in 20 years, as he would have been had he received a life sentence for murder, Watts agreed to help clear up a string of unsolved weekend murders of women in Texas. By the end of last week, Watts had admitted to strangling or stabbing eleven women (his motive: women are "evil...
...anger with France, Begin went so far as to question the propriety of having the country's troops take part in any peace-keeping force in Lebanon. Begin also called for young Jews in France to guard their neighborhoods if the police did not. But his plea was rejected by the religious leaders of the 700,000-member Jewish community in France, the fourth largest in the world. Said Chief Rabbi of France René Samuel Sirat: "The sole responsibility of protecting the lives and property of Jews rests with the state and the police...
...majority of the world's 6.5 million Armenians* deplore the terror tactics of the extremist groups, who experts believe have less than 1,000 members. Last week the Armenian Patriarch in Istanbul, Shnork Kaloustian, issued a plea to Armenians everywhere to "disown these misguided and fanatical elements." Still, hatred for the Turks has festered over the years in the face of indifference in most parts of the world to the Armenian national tragedy...
...Dinner and conversation are over, but Raquel cannot let go. A few days later she phones, eager to clear up possible misperceptions. She blames the press for many of the problems she has had trying to shed her role as sex goddess, and she wants to make a special plea for fairness. "I'm upstairs," she says into the telephone, somewhat breathlessly, "and even Andre doesn't know I'm calling you. I probably shouldn't call, but I think I've received a pretty bum rap from a lot of people...