Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recently as 1972, it looked as if the death penalty would soon go the way of the lash and the rack. That year, in Furman vs. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment, as Justice Potter Stewart put it, "in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual." It had been applied "wantonly" and "freakishly"-most often against poor blacks. But four years later, the court approved new capital punishment laws designed by individual states to be less arbitrary. Typically, the laws allow juries to hand down...
...poll estimated that 62% favored the death penalty, only 27% opposed it. No one has been able to prove conclusively that the death penalty deters murders, but the feeling persists that some crimes are so awful that the criminal deserves to be executed. Whether people will still feel that way once condemned men actually start to die again is open to question...
When the new season got under way last week, the temperature trembled at a subfreezing 31° in Pittsburgh, and Parker was every bit as cold. While umpires picketed outside Three Rivers Stadium and other major league parks in pursuit of a pay raise, baseball's best-paid player struck out twice, had no hits in four at-bats and made a fielding error in a 3-2 Pirate loss. Still, Tanner was not about to eat his words. Parker himself was calmly philosophical. "There's 161 games to go," said he. "I think I can improve...
...never expected this kind of thing. I don't know what will happen, but I do know that I've got to sleep in my home without fear; I've got to know that when I go home my house will be there. The only way I can fight back is by playing as hard as I can. Maybe then, people will appreciate who I am and what I've accomplished...
...would cut back enrollment, slice several millions from the university budget and lop 202 members from the faculty. Even if the plan is modified, Colorado will face some austerity measures-except in the stadium. Said Jeff Morgan, editor of the Colorado Daily, which covers student affairs: "The priorities are way off, but it shows where the interests lie in the state of Colorado...