Word: executioner
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¶ After finishing second in the compulsory figures, Colorado's Dave Jenkins, 23, a second-year student at Ohio's Western Reserve University Medical School, put on such an acrobatic display that one judge gave him a rare perfect score for execution, won a gold medal to match...
THROUGH OUR EMBASSY IN MONTEVIDEO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT OF URUGUAY HAS TONIGHT BROUGHT TO THE URGENT ATTENTION OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT THE GRAVE CONCERN OF THE COUNCIL OVER ANTICIPATED HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS OF STUDENT ELEMENTS AND OTHERS TO CHESSMAN EXECUTION WHEN OUR PRESIDENT VISITS URUGUAY MARCH 2.
His arguments ranged from pleas that the trial transcript was faulty (the court reporter had died before he completed transcription of his notes), to claims of new evidence proving his innocence, to declarations that all the delays (occasioned by his own persistence) had been torture and punishment enough for a...
The Dreyfus Case spread the infamous name of Devil's Island all over the world, but the prisoners, often shrunken to 70 or 80 lbs., worked and died as before. At night, a "bar of justice" would hold the incos manacled to plank beds, and on execution days the...
Bozzy's law practice prospered. Most of his cases were civil matters, but generosity and a liking for publicity prompted him to defend a succession of penniless thieves and murderers. His most notable case gives the volume a somber ending. With great eloquence, Boswell defends John Reid, who is...