Supreme Court allows executions of under18 killers
In 1989 the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that executing youths who were under 18 at the crime does not violate the Eighth Amendment. Kevin Stanford and Heath Wilkins, both tried as adults, were convicted for brutal murders involving rape and shooting a gas station employee. A corrections officer testified Stanford laughed after describing the crime.
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Kevin Stanford
Kentucky
Heath Wilkins
Missouri
Supreme Court
Stanford
Wilkins
Court ruling ties age to capital punishment evolving standards
The piece discusses a Supreme Court decision upholding execution limits by age, noting Scalia’s originalist view and the use of evolving standards of decency. It contrasts majority reasoning with Brennan and Brennen dissenters and cites state flexibility on 16 and 17 year olds. It also recounts a separate Trop case on due process and justice’s restraint.
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Avondale
Wilkins
Allen
Supreme Court
Antonin Scalia
Albert Trop
Scalia
William Brennan
Brennan
Felix Frankfurter
A Pleasant Problem as Europe Moves to Demilitarize
President Bush pushes a NATO Warsaw Pact arms reduction plan aimed at equalizing forces in Europe. The proposal seeks 275000 troops and proportional reductions across tanks aircraft and artillery with verification questions lingering. western east blocs see economic and political incentives to cut defense burdens and pursue orderly security restructuring by 1990.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Warsaw Pact
Bucharest
East
Western Alliance
Cuba Executes Ochoa in Controversial Show Trial
The firing squad execution of Gen Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez and three others fuels debate over justice versus political expediency in Castro era Cuba. U S intelligence long suspected drug and ivory trafficking links amid claims of a Stalinist show trial and shifting Cuban diplomacy with Washington.
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Fidel Castro
Castro
Cuba
Ochoa
Angola
United States
Medellin
U.S
Washington
Soviet Union
Raul
Fidel
The Day the Music Died in Record Stores
A nostalgic rant on CDs replacing vinyl. The author laments the decline of LPs, notes CDs' better sound yet lack of character, and recalls Don McLean's American Pie line about the day the music died. He worries about the loss of records and clings to a bygone era.
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Don McLean
Dick Clark
Dixon Kiwanis brings Oslo youth for six week stay
Ten years ago on July 18 1979 Knut Abrahamsen a 20 year old from Oslo arrived in Dixon under the Dixon Kiwanis Club sponsorship as part of The Experiment in International Living program. He planned to stay about six weeks visiting multiple local homes.
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Oslo
Norway
Dixon
Dixon Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis International
Abrahamson
Franklin Grove
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