Word: murdering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...days later, Charleston County detectives picked up two sullen, slack-jawed young ex-convicts named LeRoy Parker and James Lawing in a highway diner near Charleston. It took an all-white jury only 4½ hours to find both guilty of murder. Because the jury recommended mercy, the convicts were sentenced to life imprisonment...
...defense attorney, white-haired Louis E. Wyman, had fumbled with his thoughts and fumbled with his papers during his summation. Tears were in his eyes as he finished. There had been no murder, he said, and euthanasia was not, therefore, an issue. Rather, as Dr. Sander had testified, 59-year-old Mrs. Abbie Borroto was already dead when he injected air ("Why I did it, I can't tell") into her wasted...
...days later, Sander and his wife left town for two weeks' rest. After he got back, the State Board of Registration in Medicine would decide whether, though free of murder, he had been guilty of violating medical ethics...
...Cheesecake. Under Editor Petersen, the News avoids cheesecake, generally shies away from sensationalism, but is not above reporting an occasional sex murder. As circulation builders, it uses giveaway contests, with prizes as high as $50,000 in cash. For non-Mormon readers, the News also gives faithful objective coverage to news of other churches...
...unalloyed virtues of the picture lie in the quality of its performances. Jane Wyman is completely winning as a student actress who tries to clear a murder suspect by impersonating the maid of a musicomedy star. Wilding plays the detective with quiet charm, and Todd's acting as the suspect will not let down moviegoers who liked him in The Hasty Heart. Comedian Sim makes his artful most of the heroine's eccentric father. If anyone steals the show, it is Veteran Dietrich. Dressed to kill and chanting languorous ballads in a husky off-key, she creates...