Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Possession of hashish with intent to distribute is a felony that carries a prison sentence...
...part Ma Barker, on Feb. 14, 1981, she staged her own St. Valentine's Day massacre, leading the slaughter of 22 villagers she suspected of aiding her enemies. Yet her surrender, in 1983, was on her own terms, to the cheers of 10,000 supporters. On her release from prison last year, three political parties asked her to run for office...
...jury votes for the death penalty, it's usually for a stranger, a monster, a threat to society. It was almost impossible for the prosecutor to show she was any of that." After the sentencing, jurors reportedly asked Judge William Howard if Smith would receive psychiatric help in prison...
Even prosecutor Tommy Pope, who pressed for the death penalty, said he believed justice had been served. But not everyone agreed. "Why don't they just open the doors of the prison and let them all walk?" asked Judy McKinney of Williamston, South Carolina, who watched most of the trial. "She left those kids hanging upside down in that water for nine days. What's more deserving of the death penalty than that?" Still, as Johnson explains, "what you have to remember is death-penalty cases never turn on legal, technical arguments. They turn on emotions, attitudes...
...July, the government announced that 40 of the accused had been convicted and sentenced--but it refused to disclose their names, what crimes they had supposedly committed or what their punishment would be. According to sources in the Nigerian exiles' community, Obasanjo has been sentenced to life in prison. Others have been condemned to death. Last week, even as Abacha claimed to be reviewing the harsh sentences, his secret police arrested still more dissidents, including Obasanjo's lawyer and the head of Nigeria's biggest pro-democracy group...