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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sitting alone in the front row of the balcony, president-designate Neil L. Rudenstine was the first to rise to give Bok a standing ovation...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Baccalaureate Service Held in Mem. Church | 6/5/1991 | See Source »

...Derek," called President-designate Neil L. Rudenstine from the far edge of Sanders Theater's front row. "I have been listening, deeply impressed, to the way you are answering questions, and I just wonder whether there is any chance at all whether you would reconsider...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Bok Welcomes Class of 1966 | 6/4/1991 | See Source »

...Death, killing bad guys appeals to our basest instincts. That's why Bernie Goetz became such a hero. That's why Gov. Douglas Wilder (D-VA), an opponent of the death penalty, has decided that his political ambitions would be destroyed by granting clemency to convicts on Death Row...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Facing Up to Death | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...KQED triumphs in a June 7 hearing before a federal court in San Francisco and is permitted to broadcast Harris' execution. A career criminal, Harris was convicted in 1979 of the murder the preceding year of two teenage boys in San Diego. He is the first of 301 death-row convicts in California in line for execution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ultimate Horror Show | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...make all murder seem more acceptable. "There is evidence that immediately following an execution, violence increases," says Martin Rosenthal of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School. "It puts out the subliminal message that the solution is violence." Inside San Quentin, authorities are concerned that other death-row inmates, who have TV sets in their cells, may be impelled to violence if they witness Harris' execution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ultimate Horror Show | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

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