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Bestselling Author Yukio Mishima can write no wrong-at least in his native Japan. There he has briskly blended sensation and sensibility in 16 novels, 30 plays, and 80 short stories. Nine of these have now been issued in fluid, faultless English translation. In Onnagata, a dedicated Kabuki actor who...
Highest Evidence. The hope is that such questions will lead to voluntary confessions, which have always been highly valued in U.S. courts. Whether it is the spontaneous blurt, the "threshold" confession immediately after the crime or the arrest ("Officer, I just killed my wife"), or the eventual uncoerced admission made...
¶ Sylvester Johnson and Stanley Cassidy, now awaiting execution in New Jersey, were implicated by a confederate's coerced confession in the 1958 holdup murder of a toyshop operator in Camden. Johnson, then 21 and a schizoid, asked a magistrate for a lawyer, was refused, and confessed after twelve...
Holy Pictures. THE PEOPLE ASK THE WALL, headlined the newspaper Juventud Rebelde. Employees at Havana's airport demanded that the execution be carried out there, and the purser of the hijacked plane asked to be a member of the firing squad. Betancourt will almost certainly be executed, and his...
Horror & Rejoycing. Degradation and death followed swiftly upon conviction. The victim was led to the stake and the horror began. Foxe reports one execution in which a woman was forced to set fire to her own father, and others where the wood was green and burned so slowly that the...