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Supreme Court Rejects Obesity Appeal
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/ crimprof_blog/ 2008/ 10/ supreme-court-r.htmlThe U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an Ohio prisoner who argued he is too obese to be executed. Richard Cooey is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday. The court denied his request for a stay without...
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In Georgia
http://standdown.typepad.com/ weblog/ 2008/ 10/ in-georgia.html"DeKalb, Fulton juries resist giving death penalty," is the report in Sunday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution, written by David Simpson and Steve Visser. After the death penalty trial of Brian Nichols, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard plans to seek the ultimate punishment in eight more murder trials.
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Assessing Capital Punishment Trends In The U.S.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/ crimprof_blog/ 2008/ 10/ assessing-capit.htmlThis week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal for a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal and said it needed more time to consider the fate of Troy Anthony Davis. Davis was granted a stay of execution just hours before...
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UNMASKING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT / Death-row inmate’s long detention a concern
http://news.tourthailand.org/ asia-news/ japan-news/ unmasking-capital-punishmen…UNMASKING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT / Death-row inmate’s long detention a concern The Yomiuri Shimbun This is the fifth installment in a series of articles focusing on capital punishment. Under the lay judge system starting in May, lay judges chosen from among the public will participate in decision-making processes that could result in death sentences.
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1660: Major-General Thomas Harrison, the first of the regicides
http://www.executedtoday.com/ 2008/ 10/ 13/ 1660-major-general-thomas-harrison-t…On this date in 1660, the restored House of Stuart began a week of bloody justice against Charles I’s regicides by hanging, drawing and quartering Thomas Harrison at Charing Cross. Stuart Little Charles’ son and heir Charles II had been stuck on the continent during the 1650’s, until the Commonwealth came apart from its own internal contradictions after the death of Oliver Cromwell.
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1959: Genzo Kurita, serial killer
http://www.executedtoday.com/ 2008/ 10/ 14/ 1959-genzo-kurita-serial-killer/On this date in 1959, a disturbed Japanese serial killer was hanged for eight murders. A past generation’s emblem of monstrousness, Genzo Kurita (English Wikipedia page | Japanese) was invoked on the floor of the Diet as a reason to keep the death penalty. And no wonder.
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1915: Nurse Edith Cavell, “patriotism is not enough”
http://www.executedtoday.com/ 2008/ 10/ 12/ 1915-nurse-edith-cavell-patriotism-i…Early this morning in 1915, the German military occupying Belgium shot aid worker Edith Cavell at Brussels for aiding the British war effort. The matronly nurse had been condemned only the day before by a German military court for helping Allied soldiers escape from behind German lines — charges Cavell readily admitted.
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Prosecutor in one of Dallas County's DNA exonerations no longer supports death penalty
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/ archives/ 2008/ 10/ prosecutor-in-one-of-the-dn…James A. Fry, who prosecuted Dallas County exoneree Charles Chatman, said he is "shaken to the core" because of the number of exonerations throughout the country and problems with eye witness testimony. Once a staunch supporter of capital punishment, Mr.
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Map Symbols: Gibbets, Gallows, Execution
http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 10/ 10/ map-symbols-gibbets-gallows-execu…Official sites of execution - prisons, military bases, etc. - are found in parts of the semi-civilized world where capital punishment is still practiced (shown in red on the map below). Alas, these sites where we kill people so people stop killing people (and other assorted reasons) are not typically symbolized on modern maps.
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Gears of War 2 Completes Production, Goes Gold
http://www.gameargus.com/ 2008/ 10/ 10/ gears-of-war-2-completes-production-goes…Microsoft and Epic Games jointly announced this morning that the highly-anticipated Gears of War 2 has completed production and gone gold. “After two years of pouring our heart and passion into ‘Gears of War 2,’ the team is immensely happy with what we’ve created,” said Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski.
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