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...Louisiana state trooper Donald Cleveland stopped Prejean and his brother Joseph on a routine traffic violation. As Cleveland began to frisk the argumentative Joseph, Dalton crept behind the car, pulled out a pistol and fired two shots into the trooper's head. Prejean had also killed a taxi driver during an aborted robbery when he was 14. "I'm not bloodthirsty," insisted the officer's widow Candy Cleveland the morning before the execution. "But what kind of person am I supposed to be? I have pain. How am I supposed to feel?" Even so, she said, she would not favor...
Such severe sentences are usually reserved for premeditated crimes, like killings that take place during a robbery. Even then, however, authorities consider extenuating circumstances. In Maryland last year on May 6, Vincent Kennedy shot and killed a Nigerian-born taxi driver, Lucky Unuigboje Okoruwa, 24. Later Kennedy confessed the attempted robbery but insisted that his pistol had gone off accidentally when it bumped against Okoruwa's headrest. His claim, supported by FBI experts who examined his weapon, saved him from life without parole. Kennedy, 21, pleaded guilty in exchange for life plus 20 years, allowing him to become eligible...
...Seng's wife died. Finally, in May -- more than four years after he got his first close look at a Khmer Rouge guerrilla -- Seng and his ragtag, nearly starved company of survivors crossed into Thailand. Today they live in the Washington, D.C., area, where Seng is a successful taxi driver...
...placid taxi driver called Life, that identity means confinement to a segregated township. There, boredom and despair are as palpable as the omnipresent automobile carcasses and piles of beer cans. Jaiprakash Bhula is an educated Indian haberdasher, contemptuous of racial decrees. His question gnaws at South African policy: If whites really believed they were better, "would it be necessary to create laws guaranteeing social, monetary, and political superiority...
...surrounds a minibus, hacks to death the six black occupants and sets fire to the vehicle. In the southern Transvaal township of Sebokeng, police open fire on a crowd of 50,000 people protesting high rents, killing perhaps eleven. In Katlehong, east of Johannesburg, war erupts among black taxi drivers, leaving at least 25 dead and scores injured...