Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sloppy, incomplete investigation. Critics have also wondered about the FBI theory that Ray, a small-time, incompetent crook could have singlehandedly evaded a police dragnet and left the country before finally being caught in London. While Ray, who lies close to death from liver disease in a Tennessee prison hospital, did not attend Thursday's hearing in the Shelby County Criminal Court, members of King's family who hope for a trial sat prominently in front row seats. After seven failed motions for a Ray trial, favorable results from a new test could provide enough evidence to try a case...
...little happens in Syrian-controlled Lebanon without the approval of Damascus, chances are the arrests were carried out with Syria's consent -- perhaps as a goodwill token from President Hafez Assad. Among the five Japanese and two Lebanese suspects arrested is Kozo Okamoto, who was sentenced to life in prison after the Lod bombing, but later released in a prisoner exchange between Israelis and Palestinians...
What does James Earl Ray really know about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.? The question arises with new urgency because Ray, 68--who pleaded guilty to the murder, got sentenced without a trial to 99 years in prison and then recanted his confession--is in failing health. Over the years he has dropped mysterious hints that King's murder was a conspiracy. Unless he talks soon, whatever information he has will go with him to his grave. That's why King's family last week joined Ray's long-standing campaign to have his day in court...
...revolutionary subversive. For months she was confined to a dank room the size of a bed, spending her days in solitary silence, enduring torture with an electric prod and the painful, gratuitous removal of bone marrow from her spine. Released in March 1990 after more than six years in prison, Zhang was denied the right to marry and, when she became pregnant, was ordered to have an abortion. Facing a future where the child she bore in secrecy would never have any rights, Zhang, with her lover and her daughter, managed to slip over the border into Hong Kong...
...left his firm $2.6 billion in the hole. Prosecutors say Hamanaka forged the signatures of two of his superiors to cover his massive trading losses, swindling a Sumitomo subsidiary out of $770 million. Sumitomo's star trader is the only person charged and faces up to 15 years in prison. British and U.S. investigators are continuing separate probes into whether he manipulated the world market, and if so, who benefited. Hamanaka?s simple plea serves two purposes. While nine out of ten criminal defendants in Japan are convicted, showing contrition usually helps to lower the sentence. In Sumitomo?s favor...