Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...code officially provides that every man may have a public trial, a defense lawyer, and a chance to appeal the verdict. It cuts prison sentences for "ordinary" crimes from 25 to 10 years, and to 15 years for exceptionally severe offenses. It raises the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 16. It scraps such punishments as exile abroad, recently proposed for Nobel Novelist Boris Pasternak. But capital punishment stays on the books, and repeaters or hardened criminals lose all rights to early parole. Death by shooting continues for treason (including "flight abroad or refusal to return to the U.S.S.R...
...Delhi, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spied a familiar face (his own), happily gave the verdict on a wax bust molded by a local sculptress named Viramani: as good as anything he'd ever seen at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. After a minor touch-up job and correction of a faux pas-the plaque at the base of the bust added a year to Nehru's 69-the present from Sculptress Viramani goes on permanent display at his home...
...also found himself hearing tom-toms, marimbas, vibraphone and celesta. He committed these exotic cerebral sounds to paper, and last week a Parisian audience jammed into the Theatre des Champs-Elysées to hear the results, interpreted by Guest Conductor Leonard Bernstein and the French National Orchestra. Popular verdict: an exciting highlight in Composer Constant's promising young career...
...sentence: death by hanging for Jamali and three others. On hearing the verdict, Jamali seemed almost to lose his balance, then leaned wearily on the railing of the prisoner's box. An assistant prosecutor bawled: "Long live justice! Long live the republic!" Out on the Baghdad streets, the mob howled its joy, clamored for even more death sentences. The mob was clearly closing in on General Kassem, who alone has the power of clemency. The U.S. and Britain felt horror and shock at the verdict (they had expected a prison term), but knew that any public statement by them...
...jury gives her the limit. But Convict Graham protests her innocence, and her protest is supported by a well-known psychiatrist. Says he: "She is totally immoral, [but] her crimes are the crimes of those for whom physical violence is impossible." The defense appeals. The court upholds the death verdict. The date of execution is fixed...