The American Civil Liberties Union referred to a proposal to install cameras in unmanned toll booths as "creeping fascism."

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President Bush's 1991 crime bill imposes the death penalty for certain violent crimes. On the list: assassinating the president, hijacking an airliner, and murdering a federal poultry inspector.

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In New York City, on the afternoon Joel Steinberg was arrested for beating his six-year-old illegally adopted daughter, Lisa, his landlord received dozens of phone calls inquiring whether, if the little girl died, Steinberg's rent-controlled apartment would become available.

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