Word: slain
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...Review, one of the nation's mostprestigious law journals, was at the center of anemotional debate over issues of race and genderlast spring, when it published a parody of thefeminist writings of Mary Joe Frug, a New EnglandSchool of Law professor slain in Cambridge in thespring...
...DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IS ADDING SOMETHING new to the arguments over the death penalty: the contention that a vote for capital punishment is a vote against home rule. Washington's homicide rate is down slightly this year. But one of those slain was Tom Barnes, an aide to Alabama Democratic Senator Richard Shelby. The enraged Shelby pushed through Congress a law ordering the District to hold a referendum on reinstating the death penalty, and election officials last week put a sweeping proposal on the Nov. 3 ballot. Nearly all the city's leading politicians appealed to residents to vote...
Baden's exhumation last June of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers appears to meet that test. Although white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith was charged with the 1963 murder of Evers outside his Jackson, Mississippi, home, two juries deadlocked, and Beckwith, who denies the charge, went free. Last year prosecutors reopened the case, but the original autopsy report was missing. So Baden was called in to dig up the surprisingly well-preserved body and do another autopsy. If Beckwith is retried, Baden will probably testify, and a conviction could lead to the reopening of other unsolved cases. "There...
...President's brain. It was removed during the autopsy, but it may have been buried later at Kennedy's grave site. Enough documentation exists from the autopsy report, X rays and photos to reconstruct the bullets' paths. Starrs, a longtime Kennedy admirer, balks at the thought of unearthing the slain President. Says he: "That's like exhuming my father...
...part perhaps because of embarrassment over the fact that many of the militants targeted by the commandos are thought to have the blood of fellow Palestinians on their hands. Since the intifadeh began in 1987, Israeli security forces have killed 775 Palestinians in the territories; 680 more have been slain by their brethren, mainly for alleged collaboration with Israel...