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Thus ended the life of Jesse Walter Bishop, 46, heroin addict and career criminal who committed his first armed robbery at age 15 and passed 22 of his last 27 years behind bars. With similar steadfastness, Bishop had denounced all efforts made on his behalf by civil libertarians to stay...
Although the bill, which allots Cambodia $30 million in emergency funds, passed both houses unanimously, conferences about several amendments have delayed its execution. One controversial amendment stipulates that no funds can be used for abortions, Ward said.
Mailer has tested this magic on the Viet Nam War, American presidential politics, the women's movement, the moon program. He tries it now upon another American public event that possessed, even before he wrote about it, a certain Mailerian quality: the execution, early in 1977, of Gary Gilmore...
The court voted 7-1 that Bishop's defenders have no legal standing in the case. The execution is scheduled for Monday, and will be the first in Nevada since 1961, and the first in the nation since John A. Spenkelink was put to death in Florida, last May.
Bishop was convicted for murder of David Ballard during a hold-up in Las Vegas in 1977, and has opposed the NAACP's efforts to prevent his execution.