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Killer of Kitty Genovese denied parole : AP
The man who killed Kitty Genovese in New York City while 38 people heard her screams but did nothing to help has again been denied parole by a state panel.
Winston Moseley, now 70, has been denied parole 12 times since 1984, according to the state Division of Parole. The denial last week, earlier reported by the New York Law Journal, means Moseley will have to wait another two years for another hearing.
The murder of Genovese, a Queens bartender, became a symbol of urban apathy after neighbors heard her screams but did not help as she was stabbed to death on March 13, 1964.
One of the three news stories I recall from my earliest memories. The others are the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and the 1963 Kennedy assassination.
There's a
dispute about the culpability of the local residents of Kew Gardens.
Moseley was fortunate to have been convicted around the time that the appeals process for death row inmates became extended. In his case, he was alive at the time all the death sentences were reduced to life imprisonment in 1972 by the United States Supreme Court.
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