Word: prisoners
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Locked away in jail, where he could not speak publicly or even have his picture published, Mandela was an ethereal inspiration to continued resistance against apartheid. To some South African blacks, however, Mandela out of prison has become an irrelevant figurehead, a dignified gentleman with utopian socialist ideas that have little to do with their daily lives...
When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he said, "We call on the international community to continue the campaign to isolate the apartheid regime...Now is the time to intensify the struggle on all fronts. To relax now would be a mistake which generations to come will not be able to forgive...
Buel, whose innovative project trains law students and undergraduates to be advocates for battered women in the courts, said that 95 percent of the inmates at Framing-ham State Prison are battered women...
Harris is the kind of killer who can seem like a walking argument for capital punishment. On July 5, 1978, just six months after he completed a 2 1/ 2-year prison term for beating a man to death, Harris and his brother Danny decided to rob a bank in San Diego. Looking first for a getaway car, they spotted two teenage boys parked at a fast-food restaurant. Harris forced the youths to drive to a nearby reservoir, where he shot and killed them. Later, he calmly ate their unfinished hamburgers. Danny testified against his brother and served three...
...state Attorney General James Mattox boasted of the number of successful executions they had furthered. Though state Treasurer Ann Richards also supports the death penalty, she had to labor under the disadvantage of having been endorsed by editors of a newspaper produced by death-row inmates at the state prison in Huntsville. With Mattox and Richards set to face each other again in a runoff election in April, the issue is sure to loom large. "Maybe the next step will be scratch-and-sniff ads, so voters can sample the smell of the death chamber," complains Richards' campaign spokesman Mark...