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Evan Ramsey knows. Four years ago, he brought a pump-action shotgun to his Alaska high school and opened up, killing the principal and one student. Now he is serving a 210-year term in a maximum-security prison in the Alaskan mountains. Every night, before crashing in the tiny cell he shares with a fellow murderer, he mops the prison floors, a job that earns him $21 a month, just enough to buy soap, shampoo and stationery, which the Spring Creek Correctional Center does not supply for free. His face pasty white from lack of sun, Ramsey told TIME...
...Price Evan Ramsey knows. Four years ago, he brought a pump-action shotgun to his Alaska high school and opened up, killing the principal and one student. Now he is serving a 210-year term in a maximum-security prison in the Alaskan mountains. Every night, before crashing in the tiny cell he shares with a fellow murderer, he mops the prison floors, a job that earns him $21 a month, just enough to buy soap, shampoo and stationery, which the Spring Creek Correctional Center does not supply for free. His face pasty white from lack of sun, Ramsey told...
...arsenal of weapons in 1998, has severed contact with him. Mitchell told his mother that his father said to him on the phone, "You're the reason I quit praying" and hung up. After T.J. Solomon of Conyers, Ga., shot and wounded six classmates with a sawed-off shotgun in 1999, his mother demanded to know why he hadn't blasted himself. "You were going to kill yourself, I understand. How did that not happen?" she asked him just after his arrest. "I don't understand how you took innocent children, but you were too afraid to do anything...
...once sick the entire year. Somehow as a sophomore I dodged every sneeze-induced shotgun blast of tainted phlegm from every runny nose in every lecture hall. I was invincible. At the end of this glorious, deep-breathing year, being once again of sound mind and body, I half-heartedly tried to convince myself that these non-scientifically sanctioned herbs and spices were not responsible for my well-being. Echinacea’s correlation with inexplicable health by no means implied causation, right? Thus, when the big bottle of meanies ran out, I neglected to replace it?...
...rigorously evaluates its employees, ranking each on a descending 1-to-5 scale; fives get fired first. But performance didn't seem to matter this time. "The first guy in my department to go was the second highest rated on the team," says Davidson. "It was more like a shotgun blast, or a lottery...