Word: victimizations
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...opponents' other principal argument concerns apparent racial bias in sentencing. In many states black killers of white people have been more likely to get a death sentence than blacks who kill blacks, or whites who kill victims of either race. The most extensive study in this area, published last year, found that in Georgia during the 1970s, a death sentence was four times as likely in cases where the victim was white. The study found that among scores of factors, none were statistically more important in predicting a death sentence than the victim's race: to juries...
Alpha Stephens was black, his victim white. Last year Stephens' lawyers filed a brief in the Supreme Court that cited the new study, arguing that Georgia's death penally law was discriminatory in practice. The same study is the basis of three appeals still pending before the federal appeals court in Atlanta. Because of those pending cases, the Supreme Court granted Stephens a stay of execution a year ago. The legal situation seemed unchanged, yet three weeks ago, suddenly and without explanation, the court lifted the stay, clearing the way for Stephens' execution...
...eerie morning stillness was broken by the sound of shooting in the airplane cabin. The terrorists, led by a young man identified only as Abu Saleh, pushed open the door and flung the body of their first victim onto the runway. The hijackers had ordered all Kuwaitis and Americans to move to the forward section soon after the plane landed. During the ensuing confusion they apparently selected one American and summarily executed him. Assisted by Swiss diplomats, who made visits to the Tehran morgue, U.S. officials confirmed later in the week that they were "99% certain" that the murdered...
...white shirt reappeared atop the ramp. He could be heard screaming as the hijackers coldly took aim and fired six shots into him. His body was also thrown onto the runway. U.S. officials denied that the American envoy to Karachi was on the plane and established later that the victim was William Stanford, 52, an AID official stationed in Pakistan...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel's Committee for Oppressed Jewry, which also focuses on human rights, is sponsoring a rally tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. on the steps of Widener Library in support of another victim. Nadezha Fradkova, said committee member Shoshana M. Robinson...