Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slumped in a maximum security cell in Mississippi's State Penitentiary, awaiting execution for the murder of a white woman in 1954, Robert Lee Goldsby, 32, a Negro, has one abiding concern: saving his skin. Last week the onetime lathe operator, whose death has been postponed five times in...
Nabokov's ultimate and realistic irony is to make the executioner, who is at first passed off as just another fellow prisoner, into a garrulous, sentimental clown. As the axman prattles on about being not some "unfamiliar terrible somebody, but a tender friend," Author Nabokov develops the memorable conceit that the rite of execution is both a public festival and a black sacrament, in which victim and executioner are as intimately linked as bride and groom...
Only a few weeks before, Iraq's Premier Abdel Karim Kassem had been the nation's idol, but now the mention of his name drew sneers as well as applause from Baghdad crowds. As his tan Chevrolet station wagon rolled past the coffee shops on teeming Rashid Street...
Torn between the conflicting demands of Iraq's Arab nationalists and Communists, Iraqi Premier Abdul Karim Kassem is trying to keep a seesaw in balance all by himself. Last week, as the Arab world reacted to his Red-pleasing execution of a score of nationalist Iraqi officers and civilians...
Four days after Tabakchali's conviction came news that he and 18 other Iraqi officers involved in the Mosul revolt had been executed by a firing squad. Four anti-Communist civilians condemned by Mahdawi's court were hanged the same day. But the Tabakchali trial had seemingly shaken...