Poll finds broad U S support for self defense cases
A Media General AP poll of 1 532 adults shows 42 percent say crime victims may take matters into their own hands while 47 percent favor police and courts. Goetz support runs 47 percent with 17 percent opposed. The survey notes black white splits and that results reflect sampling variation.
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New York
Bernhard Goetz
Media General-Ap
Goetz
New York City
Media General Associated Press
Media General- Associated Press
Georgia executes triple killer in Jackson chair
John C. Young, 28, on death row nine years for fatally beating three elderly people, was executed in Georgia’s electric chair in Jackson after losing four appeals including to the U.S. Supreme Court. He was pronounced dead at 12:26 a.m. after a calm, resolute demeanor and no last meal.
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Jackson
John C. Young
Georgia
Young
U.S. Supreme Court
Vickie Constantinides
Nelson Jarnigan
Jarnigan
Fred Steeple
United States
Supreme Court
William J. Brennan
Thurgood
Marshall
John Paul Stevens
Lewis F. Powell
11Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Georgia Supreme Court
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
Constantinides
Ex-Teamsters Head Williams Faces Prison Term Start
Federal prosecutors ask Judge Prentice Marshall to set a date for former Teamsters president Roy L. Williams to begin a prison term for conspiring to bribe Sen. Howard Cannon. Williams, 70, sentenced to 55 years pending a medical evaluation for emphysema, has been free on bond.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Roy L. Williams
Howard Cannon
U.S
Prentice Marshall
Williams
Springfield
Teamsters Central States Pension Fund
Andrew Massa
Thomas O’malley
Joseph Lombardo
Allen Dorfman
Marshall
Supreme Court
FBI
Missouri gun dealer pleads guilty in kidnapping case
A 37 year old Missouri gun dealer from Sikeston pled guilty in federal court to the December 14 kidnapping of Dorothy Vollmer from her Lake Bloomington home. Ellison had previously pleaded guilty to kidnapping charges innocent. The plea could bring a life sentence.
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Springfield, Ill
Missouri
Illinois
Max A. Ellison
Sikeston
Ellison
Dorothy Vollmer
Lake Bloomington
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American Express
Carte Blanche
Diners Club
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Visa
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Carbondale
Larry Pitchford
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