Word: executioners
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Several professors at Harvard Law School expressed distress yesterday at Gary M. Gilmore's execution in Utah.
Gilmore's execution early yesterday morning, the first capital punishment in the United States since 1967, followed a last minute flurry of court activity.
Late Sunday night, Federal District Court Judge Willis Ritter ordered a stay of execution, but a federal appeals court lifted the stay early Monday morning. Thirty minutes after the stay was lifted, at 8:07 Mountain Standard Time, Gilmore was executed.
Fearful of a rightist backlash and possible violence on referendum day. Suárez canceled a last-minute campaign trip to the restive northern region of Catalonia to supervise the search for Oriel's kidnapers. In a dramatic TV address minutes before the Friday "execution" deadline set by the...
So, for a time, the execution was called off.