Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commission, Amnesty International USA sternly objected to reinstatement of the penalty. Amnesty Board Member John Shattuck, a professor at Harvard Law School, was asked by the commission's Benjamin Baer if the organization ever advocated the death penalty. No, replied Shattuck. "What would you do with a * prisoner who kills a guard?" Baer pressed. Answered Shattuck: "A long prison term might be appropriate...
...Prynne wore the scarlet A to betoken her adultery. In 17th century New Hampshire, however, the transgression brought "two sets of 40 lashes" and the letters AD worn on upper garments. Today, adultery in the Granite State can bring a $1,000 fine or up to a year in prison. Soon it may not be a crime at all. The state house has passed a measure that would decriminalize adultery. If the senate follows suit, Republican Governor John Sununu is expected to sign the bill into...
...nerves were calmed last week by the spectacle of another once powerful Wall Streeter getting a prison sentence. Dennis Levine, a former managing director at the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm who broke open the scandal last year by implicating Boesky, drew a term of two years, making him the fourth insider trader this year who will do hard time. Levine had faced as much as 20 years on four counts of securities fraud, perjury and income-tax evasion. "I beg you, let me put the pieces of my life together again," he implored U.S. District Judge Gerard Goettel before...
...boosted his income by a total of $700,000 over three years. But by making that purported deal, Siegel, only 38, will now forgo untold future income in the merger game. Since he is barred for life from the securities industry and could get up to ten years in prison, the lush life he enjoyed as a star dealmaker is already only a bitter memory...
...similar and particularly disturbing incident last year Austria's Minister of Defense, Friedhelm Frieschenschlager, greeted with all honors Walter Reder, a Nazi war criminal who had just been released from an Italian prison...