Word: prison
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Describing his friend, Wang Dan--one of the student leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest--Shen Tong said, "He [Dan] was a sophomore at Tiananmen and has been in prison for seven years, he's suffering from prostate disease...
...Jiang is without question implicated in the large-scale violations of human rights within his country. He is implicated in the jailing of political dissidents, in the harsh and arbitrary application of capital punishment, in the subjugation of Tibet, in the construction and maintaining of a vast system of prison labor camps comparable to some of the worst years of the Soviet gulag. He is one of the most inappropriate guests in all of Harvard's past to speak in Sanders Theatre...
There has been no conclusive evidence that the death penalty deters crime. And why would it? The criminals society hopes to target are irrational and sick. Consequences, punishments, death versus life in prison without parole--these calculations are likely not made in the minds of the ill and the evil...
...samples have disappeared. Police also mistakenly sold the car to a junkyard. And, while Toole was the prime suspect, Walsh says the police stubbornly focused attention on James Campbell, a family friend who had been involved in an affair with Reve. In 1988, Toole sent Walsh a letter from prison demanding $5,000 to talk about the location of Adam's body. Walsh immediately gave the letter to police. He has since discovered, he writes in Tears, that it was never forwarded to the district attorney...
Walsh had held out hope that Toole, suffering from cirrhosis and facing five life sentences for other crimes, would make a deathbed confession. He may have. Walsh has since learned from an ex-prison official that Toole had spoken of Adam's murder to a nurse before he died in September 1996. But confidentiality rules prevent the nurse from confirming the allegation. Toole's niece told a detective her uncle confided that he had killed Adam, and felt bad about it. That is little consolation for John Walsh. Hearsay is not closure...