Word: victimizer
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...January 1991, BTK allegedly strangled Dolores Davis--at 62, his oldest victim--and dumped her under a bridge. Then he apparently went into hibernation until January 2004, after the Wichita Eagle ran a 30th-anniversary story about the unsolved Otero murder mystery. Two months later, the Eagle received a letter that contained, among other things, the driver's license of Vicki Wegerle, a young mom killed in 1986. The return address read Bill Thomas Killman. His ominous initials: BTK. Since then, BTK has communicated in some form about once a month, and it was his last missive, sent...
Killing people is wrong, according to most ethical and religious traditions, regardless of who the victim is. The criminal justice system has an awful record of convicting the innocent of capital crimes, and this only in cases where enough evidence exists to reach a real conclusion; no one will ever know how many innocent people have been executed in the U.S. And for those with a penchant for cost-benefit analysis, the death penalty is incredibly expensive. Studies have shown time and again that the difference between the costs of a death row case and the cost of life...
...Seven Sinn Fein members accused by the victim's family of involvement in the killing have been suspended. Adams also said he would instruct his solicitor to hand over the names of people the McCartneys have implicated in the case to Northern Ireland's Police Ombudsman. This represents a huge concession for Northern Ireland's leading republican. The taboo on helping the police - blamed for collusion with loyalist paramilitaries - is still strong. Former I.R.A. member Anthony McIntyre says the McCartney murder shows they've forgotten that their objections were always supposed to be against "political policing, not policing itself...
...transported to Cambridge Police Department headquarters on Western Avenue for holding. He was released on his own recognizance the next morning for $40 bail. According to court reports, he was released on the condition that he not commit another crime during his release, that he not abuse the alleged victim, and that he abide by all active restraining orders...
...Crimson played up the story, exaggerating the extent of the allegations against the longtime professor. Wiener accuses Thernstrom of using the media attention to his advantage. Wiener writes that Thernstrom “turned these events into a cause celebre for the right, describing himself as a victim of left-wing political correctness...