Word: prison
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Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson, the two boys accused of the schoolyard killings in Jonesboro, Arkansas, go before a juvenile court today. Because the boys are under 14 years old when the shooting occurred, they would -- at most -- spend only a few years in prison if found guilty. Tomorrow is Mitchell Johnson?s 14th birthday...
...shudder to think of these murderers as human beings, but they do share that distinction with the rest of us. What separates a serial rapist from the man in the office cubicle next to him? Society has tried to weed these people out with tougher prison sentences and sex-offender registry laws, but people are still dying horrible deaths and living brutalized lives. Only those convicted show up on the government's radar screen. The rest go undetected...
...Internet confessor Larry Froistad Jr. will plead guilty to the murder of his 5-year-old daughter Amanda. Froistad, who today also faces federal charges of trafficking in child pornography, could be sentenced to as much as life in prison without parole...
...authorities refused Abdi a visa. He has had to make his preparations in utmost secrecy lest Iran's still powerful hard-liners detain him before his departure for France. Once a fervent supporter of Iran's clerical regime, Abdi was arrested in 1993 and spent nearly a year in prison for criticizing the mullahs' aversion to democracy...
...opera buffs with a startling blend of flashy theatrics and unabashed feminism has made her the most controversial opera director of her generation. "Tristan's ship," Zambello explains gleefully, "is a huge ocean liner that has Isolde in the middle--as if she's in a womb or a prison--and the lower deck is an engine room with sweaty bodies. When I saw the set, I thought, 'People are just going to freak...