Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know what you were thinking. You were thinking, "Run, Martin Gurule, run!" A violent double murderer was on the loose, and you were secretly on his side. Me too. I don't condone execution-style murder, and I'm down with the whole prison concept, but I just couldn't help it. I knew he could have been holding some single mother and her tiny baby hostage, but I couldn't help thinking that even though LuAnn and Junior would have driven him batty at first, by the end of the second day he would have been heating up bottles...
...uniform with a pen, scaling two 10-ft., razor-studded fences, ducking a barrage of bullets, scampering through a marshy forest and evading more than 500 officers. Martin Gurule was a maverick with nothing left to lose up against a giant bureaucracy and some pretty cocky-sounding Texas prison officers, who were fooled by pillows he bunched together to make it look like him sleeping. Gurule was fighting the Man. He was messing with Texas. Are you getting this, Mr. Bruckheimer...
When Gurule was found dead on Thursday in a river a mile from the prison by two off-duty prison guards who were fishing, I was relieved, because if he had made it out of the woods and killed people, this column would have made me feel really bad. But I mostly felt stupid for picturing him hunting squirrels with sharp rocks when he couldn't even cross a river. Then again, how dumb were those 500 officers not to look there? Were they still investigating the pillows...
...declining to convict even when the facts and law are damning. Still, juries are hard to predict. Last year a Louisiana man, David Rodriguez, rejected a plea bargain in the mercy killing of his Alzheimer's-ridden 90-year-old father. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Complicating matters for Kevorkian is that he seems intent on representing himself--a move his former attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, says could be disastrous...
...together. A gentleman. He'd give a girl a hundred dollars just for smiling at him. That pimp charge was a frame just to get him off the streets." Convicted on 62 counts in June 1936, Luciano got 30 to 50 years in prison...