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Boyle's attorney, Charles F. Moses, contends that the murder conspiracy stopped at the local union level. Yablonski, Moses told the jury, threatened to expose misuse of union funds in U.M.W. district 19 in eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. To quiet him, district leaders ordered the execution. Moses promised to...
Westbrook felt that he was marked for execution "because I'm a threat in general to the S.L.A. I know quite a bit about them. I can analyze their moods and see through them." He admitted that he had detailed information about the S.L.A. and that he had talked...
The four years had granted a stay of execution from the inevitable suicidal confrontation with non-academia. Stevens's taste for indulgence was now a habit. He was incapable of coping with the demands of an unrelenting world. His ideology had become one of comfort; and he settled all questions...
It may be that 1974 will enter such television annals as there are as the year made-for-TV movies came of age. Already, three of them have imposed themselves with unusual if mixed force on audience and industry decision makers alike. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, which used...
Since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972 handed down its 5-to-4 ruling that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment ("In the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual," struck wrote by Justice Potter Stewart), 22 states have redrafted execution laws. It was...