If Death Were Televised

October, 1991

• Killing the Cop Killers--7 p.m. on NBC. Host William Shatner presents Kenneth Allen, who shot and killed Chicago police officers William Bosak and Roger Van Shaick on March 3, 1979, in retaliation for police having confiscated weapons from his home three months earlier. Death by lethal injection. Roy Bruce Smith, a Virginia man who armed himself, then vowed to kill the first policeman he saw, lured Sergeant John Conner III to his house, wounded him, then killed him with a shot to the head. Dea...