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• On November 15

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 480
  On this day in ... ... 1949 (60 years ago today) , sentences of death by hanging were carried out on 2 men convicted of involvement in the assassination Indias independence leader, Mohandas K. Gandhi , in 1946, as he walked to a prayer meeting at the New Delhi house where he was living. Executed were a ...
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• 1539: Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 426
  Letter to Thomas Cromwell from his man in Somerset,* Richard Pollard, a local gentry type making out well under the Dissolution of the Monasteries : Pleaseth it your lordship to be advertised, that … the same 15th day [of November] the late abbot of Glastonbury went from Wells to Glastonbury, and there was ...
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• Every girl’s crazy ’bout a sharp dressed man

  
  Common Sense Political Thought — Authority: 141
  I don’t mind a parasite; I object to a cut rate one. — Rick Blaine Our good friend Gort has the story of a cut-rate parasite: A well dressed man 19 and counting SCRANTON - Former Luzerne County Deputy Clerk William Brace has agreed to plead guilty to accepting a suit valued at $1,500 in exchange for ...
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• Nonie Darwish: Khalid’s Trial is America’s Trial

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 611
  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , who confessed to be the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attack, will be tried at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan with the same rights as any US citizens. What is the purpose of this trial if Mr. Mohammed has already confessed? For the Obama administration, the ...
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• Ohio to lead way in single-injection executions

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  Ohio became the first state in the nation Friday to adopt a single-injection method for executing condemned inmates, a process that state officials believe will avoid violating the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The single large dose of anesthetic is similar to the method used by veterinarians to ...
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• European Union Creates International Speeding Ticket

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  Speeding tickets are beginning to cross international borders in Europe, thanks to the European car and driving license information system, or EUCARIS. At the beginning of the year, Swiss motorists began being charged for speed camera tickets issued by French authorities. As of October, the French government had ...
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• No wonder the thugs just laugh at us

  
  halls of macadamia — Authority: 513
  Meet Andre Bourne ... "The defendant was on parole at the time of this homicide and had been released from jail slightly over two months earlier. He had been convicted in Toronto on Feb. 8, 2006 on charges of pointing a firearm, possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm and ammunition, assault with a ...
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• Victims of Bomb Blast in Israel Recovering as Suspect Indicted

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 134
  Messianic Jews hope for punishment from courts, mercy from God, for confessed killer.ISTANBUL, November 13 (CDN) — One morning during the week of March 10, 2008 in Ariel, Israel, David Ortiz opened his Bible randomly, read the words on the pages that opened before him and was filled with dread. “I opened the book ...
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• 1726: The Gypsy outlaws of Hesse-Darmstadt

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 426
  On November 14 and 15, 1726, more than 20 Gypsy outlaws of Hesse-Darmstadt Detail view (click for full image) of the execution of the Gypsies at Giessen. Gypsies in Europe still suffer ample discrimination today, so it’s little surprise to find early modern Europe thick with anti-Gypsy legislation . ...
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• 9/11 Trial Poses Unparalleled Legal Obstacles for Both Sides

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  How do you defend Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the most notorious terrorist figures in history? One step, legal analysts say, may be to ask for a change of venue.
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• Ohio Is First to Change to One Drug in Executions

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Breaking ranks with the 35 other states, Ohio said it would switch from a three-drug cocktail.
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Cmon Obama, Lets have a real buildup in Afghanistan!

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 138
  This article, by Richard Lee, was posted to The Rag Blog, November 11, 2009 To Barack Obama: Let’s have a military buildup! You can show those crazy-ass generals at the Pentagon that you aren’t just a chicken-shit weenie from Harvard. You gotta do it right, however. Stop waffling about a measly 40,000 or 44,000 ...
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• Bill Jefferson Sentenced To 13 Years In Prison

  
  NPR Blogs: Political Junkie — Authority: 136
  Former Rep. William Jefferson , a Louisiana Democrat who lost his seat in 2008 while he was under indictment for bribery and racketeering -- and who was convicted of the charges earlier this year -- was sentenced today to 13 years in prison for his crimes. Roll Call reports it is the longest incarceration ever ...
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• The only realistic penalty for such a crime has to be death.

  
  IAIN HALL — Authority: 131
  I have often argued here that there are some crimes for which there is only one adequate penalty . Well what could be a better case in point than the cold-blooded murder of more than 3000 people on 9-11?Mohammed and his four co-accused will be brought from the controversial prison at Guantanamo [...]
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• 9/11 accused Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to be tried in New York court

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  The Obama administration today ordered that the self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four others be transferred from Guantánamo Bay to New York to stand trial. The US attorney general, Eric Holder, told a press conference in Washington he would be seeking the death ...
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• Pedophile evangelist Tony Alamo sentenced to 175 years

  
  Runnin' Scared — Authority: 747
  Creepy "preacher"/polygamous serial child molestation advocate Tony Alamo was, as predicted, sentenced today to 175 years for taking his underaged "brides" across state lines for sex. ...
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• Affidavit: Yale murder suspect tries to clean up blood in front of police

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 617
  Program Note: For more details on the killing of Annie Le, a Yale medical student, watch AC360° tonight at 10 p.m. ET. Le, 24, a Yale graduate student was found the day she was scheduled to marry her college sweetheart. Randi Kaye| BIO AC360° Correspondent I covered the brutal murder of Yale ...
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• More Details From Ohio on Lethal Injection Changes

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  Prison officials held a news conference in Ohio this afternoon, disclosing additional information about changes to the states lethal injection procedures.  Thanks to the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California at Berkeley, details are here ., in Adobe .pdf format. The AP title remains, " Ohio to ...
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• Oh, the poor dear!

  
  Common Sense Political Thought — Authority: 141
  It seems that Major Nidal Hasan may be paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the four gunshot wounds he took when civilian police shot him, stopping his mass murder rampage. Lawyer: Accused Fort Hood gunman may be paralyzed By Angela K. Brown, Associated Press Writer – Fri Nov 13, 10:57 am ET FORT ...
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• Manhattan reaction: Short walk, epic journey from Ground Zero to 9/11 trial

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  The walk from the site of the fallen Twin Towers to the Manhattan courthouse where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four codefendants will now stand trial takes about 15 minutes at a gentle stroll. But it symbolises an epic eight-year journey from 2001s terrorist attacks to the first day in court for those accused of ...
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