Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...razers, each of whom, if convicted, would have to pay a $50 state fine for touching off Old Glory. In Washington, South Carolina's Democratic Representative L. Mendel Rivers introduced a bill that would make desecration of the American flag a federal offense punishable by five years in prison and a fine...
...Park before newspaper cameras. FBI agents arrested Rader last week at his Evanston, Ill., apartment, handcuffed him before they stuck him in a Chicago jail cell overnight. Though Rader was released the next day on $1,000 bond, raised by friends at Northwestern, he faced a possible five-year prison sentence and $10,000 fine for burning his draft card, and a possible six-month sentence for wearing his uniform without official approval...
Just before the door to the octagonal, green gas chamber in California's San Quentin prison clanged shut, the condemned man twisted toward the witnesses. Straining against the eight thick straps that bound him to a chair, he cried: "I am Jesus Christ!" Moments later, a pellet of potassium cyanide was dropped into a solution of dilute sulfuric acid, and blowers began sucking the lethal gas upward. Within twelve minutes, Aaron Mitchell, 37, who was convicted of slaying a Sacramento policeman during a 1963 tavern holdup, was dead. He was the first man to be executed in California...
Everything in Massachusetts, it seems, including questions of life of death, has an eerie way or revolving around politics. Nine men-one of whom just arrived this week-sit in the shiny, antiseptic cells of Walpole prison's Death Row awaiting electrocution. Whether any are executed within the next six months or so could well depend upon the governor's political ambitions and the amiability of the Executive Council...
University policemen are not hardened law enforcers. Tonis is one of the few with a background in police work (one man, a retired army colonel, was warden of a prison for German war criminals after the last war). Recruits come largely from within the Harvard community. They include librarians, janitors, and maintenance men, and the primary criterion for their selection is their "ability to get along with people." Tonis interviews as many as 50 applicants for one vacancy. The job is considered a good one and pays relatively well; no one has quit in the last five years...