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Thus at least 186 men and two women are currently under threat of execution.
Almost weekly the overpopulated death row at Central Prison in Raleigh grows more crowded. Nine more men arrived last month, raising the total of those awaiting asphyxiation in the gas chamber to 62 men. Two women facing execution are confined in another Raleigh prison. The rapid influx has long since...
Many of those on death row live with a special anguish; they face execution for crimes that are no longer capital offenses in North Carolina. In 1973 the state supreme court ruled that for all crimes that once carried an optional death sentence, execution must now be the punishment. Then...
A more extreme example comes from the village of La Guardia, 20 miles east of Toledo, which every year celebrates a ten-day festival honoring the Niňo (boy) of La Guardia. The festival grew out of a charge that in 1488. local Jews had murdered an unnamed boy...
Rochester was indirectly responsible for at least three deaths. Once, when he and some friends went whoring and mistakenly ended up at the door of a local constable, Rochester drew his sword, but then ran off and let his unarmed companion be killed. Greene says simply, "by the time he...