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...credits include episodes of Newhart and Sledge Hammer. -- EUGENE McCARTHY, antiwar presidential candidate, retired from the U.S. Senate in 1970. He won 30,074 votes in 1988 as presidential candidate of the Pennsylvania-based Consumer Party. -- HUEY P. NEWTON, cofounder of the Black Panthers served three years in prison for shooting an Oakland policeman. In and out of jail since, he was released from San Quentin this summer after serving two months for parole violations. -- JAMES EARL RAY, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He escaped briefly in 1977 and continues...
Many lawyers contend that the rules may sharply limit plea bargaining after indictments, thus crowding court calendars. The crunch behind bars is expected to get worse. The 50,000 inmates jamming federal penitentiaries are already 60% more than capacity. "We're going to see dramatic increases in prison terms and prison overcrowding," predicts Sam Buffone, chairman of an American Bar Association committee on the sentencing system...
With that, the Bastille exploded into the biggest uproar since a mob stormed the fortress prison to begin the French Revolution of 1789. Some of the brightest stars in the world of music noisily opened fire in support of Barenboim. Jessye Norman, the stately Georgia-born soprano, said she would "reconsider" whether to sing in the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Revolution. Patrice Chereau, who was to stage a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni on opening night a year from now, said he considered his contract "annulled by this event." Conductor-composer Pierre Boulez resigned...
More than 100 people supporting the execution and about two dozen against milled around outside the Florida State Prison. At 7 a.m. a small group of death penalty supporters lit sparklers and firecrackers and cheered, while opponents silently held candles and then held a memorial service...
Within a half hour of the execution, a hearse carried Bundy's body out of the prison to Gainesville for an autopsy...