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Gregg v. Georgia
Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), argued 31 Mar. 1976, decided 2 July 1976 by a vote of 7 to 2; Stewart announced the decision in an opinion joined by Powell and Stevens; White, Burger, Rehnquist, and Blackmun concurring; Brennan and Marshall in dissent. With two companion cases from... Read more |
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P D James
P. D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park), 1920-, English mystery novelist, b. Oxford. From 1964 to 1979 she worked in the criminal department of the Department of Home Affairs. Her first mystery, Cover Her Face, was published in 1962. It introduced readers to her... Read more |
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Mortality
MortalityTypes of death rateCause of deathWorld mortality—situation and trendsDeath rates by ageExpectation of lifeDeath rates by marital statusDeath rates by sexDeath rates by cause of deathBIBLIOGRAPHYMortality statistics are by-products of the legal process of death registration... Read more |
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coroner
coroner , judicial officer responsible for investigating deaths occurring through violence or under suspicious circumstances. The office has been traced to the late 12th cent. Originally the coroner's duties were primarily to maintain records of criminal justice and to take custody of all royal... Read more |
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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , allegorical figures in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. The rider on the white horse has many interpretations—one is that he represents Christ; the rider on the red horse is war; on the black horse is famine; and on the pale horse, death.... Read more |
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The Players
Players, The, New York City club for actors, writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, was founded by Edwin Booth (1888), who was president until his death, and presented the organization with a building designed by Stanford White. Later presidents included Joseph Jefferson and John Drew.... Read more |
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Adela of Louvain
Adela of Louvain (c.1100–51), queen of Henry I. Henry's second wife, Adela married him after the death of his only legitimate son in the White Ship disaster. The marriage's chief—and unfulfilled—purpose was to provide Henry with a male heir. When it had manifestly failed to... Read more |
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harp seal
harp seal crested earless, or true, seal , Phoca groenlandica, found in the N Atlantic around Greenland and the White Sea. In the spring, harp seals migrate southward to assemble in large groups to breed near the Newfoundland and Norwegian coasts. The young, born on ice floes, are covered with a... Read more |
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Clemens, Samuel L. Mark Twain
...Clemens, Samuel L. Mark Twain (1835–1910...a slave owner and justice of the peace, went bankrupt...public identity “Mark Twain” (a pseudonym...together with the death (in 1896) of his favorite...Henry H. Rogers, Mark Twain after a ... |
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Legal Defense Fund
...Margold, a young white lawyer, outlined theories...had to be equal to white ones in ways that were...concern that the death penalty was administered...Richard Kluger , Simple Justice (1975). Mark Tushnet , The NAACP...1950 (1987). ... |
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Miller, Samuel Freeman
...antislavery politics, Justice Miller developed...Court until his death in 1890. Miller...Freeman. The future justice initially trained...the Civil War, Justice Miller voted to sustain...his most enduring mark on the Court's ... |
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Stanford v. Kentucky
...whole by Rehnquist, White, and Kennedy and in...standards of decency that mark the progress of a...state to impose the death penalty on a person...and as applied, Justice Antonin Scalia found...juveniles. In dissent, Justice William J. ... |
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Crime
...changed markedly over time. White law‐enforcers and jurors in the nineteenth...wrapped in a cloth and bore no marks of violence,” the newspaper noted...the county coroner treated the death as a criminal act. Although laws...crime. Because the ... |
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL WELCOMES COMMENTS FROM FORMER TEXAS GOVERNOR MARK WHITE...
...Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, issued...former Texas Gov. Mark White said the death penalty...evolution of Governor White's views on the...which our criminal justice system is prone to...protect people wherever ... |
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Justice at last: `I have lived her death every day' For years, Lynette...
Byline: Mark Waldron THE stepmum of murdered Lynette White told today how she had...last 15 years. Carol White still sheds tears over...Terrence, whose premature deaths she holds Gafoor responsible...At the time of her death Carol remembered ... |
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Partisan Tone Marks Hearing on Foster Death; Senate Republicans Target White...
...yesterday into the way Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr.'s death was investigated, creating...trial was the Clinton White House. Republicans laid...Hubbell, the former No. 3 Justice Department official now...were complaining to the ... |
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A Mother Searches for Answers, Waits for Justice; Vernessa Whitfield Marks...
...its luster. Silver and white earrings dangle over...eyebrows and a wide, white smile with a hint of...been arrested in her death. Until someone is...answers, waiting for justice. Nearly two years after Teneisha's death, her mother ... |
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Brutal street justice marks fight for right in Batman.(ARTS)(ZADZOOKS:...
...of violence and street justice because of tough-talking...including a black-and-white sequential-art autobiography...Comics No. 27, author Mark Cotta Vaz mixes quotes...Knight's brushes with death, his extended family...selected by Alex Ross and ... |
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The need to see justice in death
...raised a cheer for death. It was a chilling...putting on airs of justice, the need to see...of those for whom justice is synonymous with...inability to imagine how justice can be had without...Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. Of ... |
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A talk with Robert Arp and Mark D. White What Batman teaches us about philosophy
...obsessed with the death of his parents at...Ontology and professor Mark D. White of the College of...ethics. Arp and White frame Batman's...interviewed Arp and White separately, by phone...plate and metes out justice the way ... |
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FREED CONVICT EPITOMIZES ERROR OF SPEEDY JUSTICE DEATH ROW SURVIVOR WAS...
HOUSTON -- On death row, it was Clarence...awaiting a state-ordered death. For nearly 10 years...high school girl who was white. Twice, he came so close to death -- once, within two...only black among four whites. Although he willingly...out, ... |
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MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE; Why the Death Penalty Doesn't Work
...be a high- water mark of the Supreme Court...In Furman, the justices were willing to abolish the death penalty as it existed. But the justices were not willing...to a nugget from Justice Douglas's opinion...Figuring that Byron ... |
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Bosnian Serbs mark death of Yugoslav soldiers
...militias at the start of the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The Serbs laid white roses and lit candles at the site of the attack on a Serb...regular Yugoslav army soldier who never harmed anyone. I want justice," After the short ceremony, the Serbs boarded their three... |
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