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THE BOSS changes his approach to his urban themes of despair and limits on Nebraska. Where darkness and a desire to prove it all night have previously been prime concerns, there is now hopelessness and a desire to die. These songs are more directly personal, and the souls bared are...

Author: By --thomas H. Howlett, | Title: A Bold Departure | 10/2/1982 | See Source »

The jury took only 1 hr. 50 min. to find Gacy guilty. Next day, he received his sentence: death by electrocution. "It's God's will," Gacy told Prosecutor Kunkle. "The jury just did to me what I've been trying to do to myself for so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: It's God's Will | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

One of our first stops on a tour of Phnom-Penh was Toul Sleng Prison, once a French lycee. Within its quadrangle of three-story concrete buildings in a serene palm-studded quarter of the capital, 20,000 Cambodians were reportedly tortured and killed by Pol Pot's henchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: There Is Nothing, Monsieur | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

(He) is at the end of his twenties, lean, slight, light-skinned, freckled, pale-eyed, sharp-faced. He wears round wire-rimmed spectacles like Bertolt Brecht's and a bush of red hair teased out as if in ongoing electrocution. His chin and lips are hairless. No hippie he, his...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Return To Sender | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Evans first made his death wish known at an unusual televised trial. Accused of murder and robbery, Evans and Ritter both threatened to murder the jurors, too, if they acquitted the pair. A shocked jury took all of 15 minutes to convict. Ritter lost his urge to die during the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Death Wish Denied | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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