Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside Florida State Prison where Bundy was executed, something equally gruesome occurred. Some 300 spectators gathered in the early morning hours to celebrate Bundy's death...
...rose to become the reputed boss of New York City's Gambino crime family, John (Big John) Gotti survived a planned rubout by rival mobsters, a four-year prison term for attempted manslaughter, and a sensational eight-month trial in 1987 that led to his acquittal on racketeering charges. Last week he confronted what prosecutors claim to be the most formidable charges brought against the dapper reputed gangster since a murder indictment 15 years ago. Gotti claims he makes his living as a salesman for a plumbing company...
...Arrant nonsense," retorted U.S. District Judge Albert V. Bryan. He proceeded to sentence LaRouche, 66, to 15 years in prison for evading taxes and swindling his political contributors out of $30 million in loans. Six LaRouche associates also received prison sentences of three to five years and fines of $6,000 to $11,000. Soon afterward, federal prosecutors in Boston dropped obstruction of justice charges against LaRouche. Four years of investigations into the financial shenanigans of the LaRouche movement had come to an end. "This is not a political case," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kent Robinson. "This was a case...
...goals justified his means, others borrowed millions from supporters, knowing the money would never be returned. Judge Bryan refused to grant LaRouche bail pending appeal, and dispatched him to an Alexandria jail in handcuffs. If his sentence is upheld, LaRouche will have to serve at least five years in prison. He has declared himself an innocent victim of Soviet sympathizers in the top tiers of U.S. Government. His enemies, he said, would kill him behind bars...
...when I have to meet my day . . . I want you to be able to say that day that I did try to feed the hungry . . . that I did try in my life to clothe the naked . . . that I did try in my life to visit those who were in prison . . . that I tried to love and serve humanity." On April 8 in Memphis, 42,000 people walked silently in the march Martin Luther King Jr. had planned. By the end of the month, Ralph Abernathy, his friend and successor, kicked off the Poor People's Campaign. In May, the campaign...