Word: smith
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...participants not to show any emotion. It seemed an impossible request, given the passion and compassion aroused by the case. Yet when June Miller, the Union County, South Carolina, clerk of court, read "guilty of murder" on the first count, the courtroom froze as if a tableau. Only Susan Smith seemed to move, shuddering at what had just been said and was about to be said again. "Guilty of murder," said the clerk on the second count...
...people I worked with 30 yearsago," said Charles C. Smith, a retiredsalesperson. "It's very good and very nice...
Susan Smithgasped as the Union, S.C., jury returned after just 2 1/2 hours of deliberation and announced that they had voted to sentence her to life in prison, instead of choosing the death penalty. "There was a sharp, collective intake of breath," TIME's Lisa Towle reports. "David Smith, the boys' father, stared straight ahead, not even blinking. Beverly Russell, her stepfather, pulled a handerchief and patted his brow, and Linda Russell, her mother, bowed her head and cried silently into a tissue." The jury of nine men and three women had taken the same amount of time last Saturday...
...Susan Smith's defense rested, clearing the way for jury deliberation over the death penalty, after a parade of relatives and friends testified that sending the 23-year-old woman to the electric chair would only compound the tragedy of her sons' deaths. The most wrenching moment, TIME's Lisa Towle reports, came when Beverly Russell, Smith's stepfather, declared his remorse for years of sexual abuse. "If I'd known at the time what the result of my sin would be," said Russell, formerly a leading figure in the Christian Coalition, "I would have mustered the strength to behave...
...hours after David Smith completed devastating testimony Tuesday that evoked sobs from jurors, a truck pulled up near the Union, S.C. courthouse with freshly-printed copies of his book about the tragedy, "Beyond All Reason: My Life with Susan Smith." While Susan Smith's lawyers were expected to attack her ex-husband for the book, TIME's Lisa Towle says Smith seems to have won over the jury by claiming that all proceeds will go to children's charities except $20,000 he'll use for living expenses while he relocates. Towle says Smith makes his most damaging point -- that...