From one o'clock on the afternoon of July 24, 1974, until shortly before ten o'clock the night of August 3, eleven days later, one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in the history of the United States took place in Texas's Huntsville State Prison. The ringleader, Federico (Fred) Gomez Carrasco, the former boss of the largest drug-running operation in south Texas, was serving life for assault with intent to commit murder on a police officer. Using his connections to smuggle guns and ammunition into the prison, and employing the aid of two other inmates, he took eleven prison workers and...
From one o'clock on the afternoon of July 24, 1974, until shortly before ten o'clock the night of August 3, eleven days later, one of the longest host...
There is a distinct and vitally active move afoot in this country to do away with the death penalty - a movement generally headed up by social liberals in search of a "cause." And, as most polls show, those abolitionists are winning because most of America's vast "silent majority" is conceding the argument through inaction and default. Support for the death penalty is diminishing. "An Eye for an Eye: In Defense of the Death Penalty" is an attempt to overcome the ignorance and apathy that grows despite a series of recent studies that show the death penalty IS a deterrent to murder. "An Eye for...
There is a distinct and vitally active move afoot in this country to do away with the death penalty - a movement generally headed up by social liberal...
