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Labat and Poret were charged with raping a young white woman, who was wrenched from her escort's side on a dark New Orleans street in 1950. Sentenced to death in 1953, the condemned men won nine stays of execution, once beat their date with the electric chair by...
But times are changing. Last week a Moslem religious court convicted Ahmed el Osamy, a 60-year-old government worker who ran one of San'a's top boydellos, of being a practicing pederast, and sentenced him to death. Under an ancient Yemeni law, the execution should have...
The appeal went unanswered by North Viet Nam, which has already flouted the Geneva Convention by parading U.S. prisoners before hostile street mobs, by refusing to allow Red Cross officials to visit them and, Washington suspects, by exacting confessions of guilt through "moral or physical coercion." Indeed, only slightly less...
Forced to rely more on imagination than on eyewitness accounts, artists of subsequent ages customarily pictured Jesus stretched on a crux sublimis, towering high above the earth, which the Romans reserved exclusively for illustrious victims. An obscure carpenter from Nazareth, contends Bréhant, would have rated nothing more than...
Bolt's answer, as I find it in his text and the reading of it by the Summer School Repertory Theater, is two-fold. First, More believes, almost to the last, that his lawyerly skill will preserve his neck. We find him replying to Roper's fears of an adversary...