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The earliest conviction date was 1963, but the majority of people on the list were convicted after 1975. As for the $32,000 average: That's the average cost of a murder trial where the prosecutor is not seeking the death penalty.

Can't say I blame her, considering the subject matter. Students napped in property law class last year fairly often. If she doesn't participate in the ruling, I don't have a problem with it, since it would be the same as if she weren't there to begin with. That said, napping on the bench is pretty bad form.

They cost so much beacuse of the endless appeals Sorry, but that's not accurate. For example, the trial of Randy Kraft, one of this country's most prolific serial killers, cost over $10 million. The TRIAL. not appeals, not execution costs. Just the trial. It costs states and counties an estimated $622,000 to lock a person up for life, estimated to be 47 years in prison. That includes appeals costs, as well as health care costs. On average, the trial would cost about $32,000.

I wonder how the victim's family would feel if it turns out later that the wrong man was executed.

If we followed your plan, the 123 innocent people listed below would be dead. The longest time between conviction and sentencing to exoneration was 30 years. One man died in prison and was exonerated after his death. As long as we keep making mistakes like this, the cost of the death penalty is too high. 1. David Keaton FL 2 Samuel A. Poole NC 3 Wilbert Lee FL 4 Freddie Pitts FL 5 James Creamer GA 6 Christopher Spicer NC 7 Thomas Gladish NM 8 Richard Greer NM 9 Ronald Keine NM 10 Clarence Smith NM 11 Delbert Tibbs FL 12 Earl Charles GA 13 Jonathan Treadway AZ 14 Gary Beeman OH 15 Jerry Banks GA 16 Larry Hicks IN 17 Charles Ray Giddens OK 18 Michael Linder SC 19 Johnny Ross LA 20 Ernest (Shuhaa) Graham CA 21 Annibal Jaramillo FL 22 Lawyer Johnson MA 23 Larry Fisher MS 24 Anthony Brown FL 25 Neil Ferber PA 26 Clifford Henry Bowen OK 27 Joseph Green Brown FL 28 Perry Cobb IL 29 Darby (Williams) Tillis IL 30 Vernon McManus TX 31 Anthony Ray Peek 32 Juan Ramos FL 33 Robert Wallace GA 34 Richard Neal Jones OK 35 Willie Brown FL 36 Larry Troy FL 37 Randall Dale Adams 38 Robert Cox 39 Timothy Hennis NC 40 James Richardson FL 41 Clarence Brandley TX 42 John C. Skelton TX 43 Dale Johnston OH 44 Jimmy Lee Mathers AZ 45 Gary Nelson GA 46 Bradley P. Scott FL 47 Charles Smith IN 48 Jay C. Smith PA 49 Kirk Bloodsworth 50 Federico M. Macias 51 Walter McMillian AL 52 Gregory R. Wilhoit OK 53 James Robison AZ 54 Muneer Deeb TX 55 Andrew Golden FL 56 Joseph Burrows IL 57 Adolph Munson OK 58 Robert Charles Cruz AZ 59 Rolando Cruz IL 60 Alejandro Hernandez 61 Sabrina Butler MS 62 Verneal Jimerson IL 63 Dennis Williams IL 64 Roberto Miranda NV 65 Gary Gauger IL 66 Troy Lee Jones CA 67 Carl Lawson IL 68 David Wayne Grannis AZ 69 Ricardo Aldape Guerra TX 70 Benjamin Harris WA 71 Robert Hayes FL 72 Christopher McCrimmon AZ 73 Randall Padgett AL 74 James Bo Cochran AL 75 Robert Lee Miller, Jr. OK 76 Curtis Kyles LA 77 Shareef Cousin LA 78 Anthony Porter IL 79 Steven Smith IL 80 Ronald Williamson OK 81 Ronald Jones IL 82 Clarence Dexter, Jr. MO 83 Warren Douglas Manning SC 84 Alfred Rivera NC 85 Steve Manning IL 86 Eric Clemmons MO 87 Joseph Nahume Green 88 Earl Washington VA 89 William Nieves PA 90 Frank Lee Smith ** died prior to exoneration FL 91 Michael Graham LA 92 Albert Burrell LA 93 Oscar Lee Morris CA 94 Peter Limone MA 95 Gary Drinkard AL 96 Joaquin Jose Martinez FL 97 Jeremy Sheets NE 98 Charles Fain ID 99 Juan Roberto Melendez FL 100 Ray Krone AZ 101 Thomas Kimbell, Jr. PA 102 Larry Osborne KY 103 Aaron Patterson IL 104 Madison Hobley IL 105 Leroy Orange IL 106 Stanley Howard IL 107 Rudolph Holton FL 108 Lemuel Prion AZ 109 Wesley Quick AL 110 John Thompson LA 111 Timothy Howard OH 112 Gary Lamar James OH 113 Joseph Amrine MO 114 Nicholas Yarris PA 115 Alan Gell NC 116 Gordon Steidl IL 117 Laurence Adams MA 118 Dan L. Bright LA 119 Ryan Matthews LA 120 Ernest Ray Willis TX 121 Derrick Jamison OH 122 Harold Wilson PA 123 John Ballard FL In order to be included on the list, defendants must have been convicted and sentenced to death, and subsequently either: a) their conviction was overturned and they were acquitted at a re-trial, or all charges were dismissed; or b) they were given an absolute pardon by the governor based on new evidence of innocence.

I'm not sure if Mal or Jayne from Serenity/Firefly would qualify as "super"heros, but the costumes are really easy. A jedi is also an easy costume. Brown or white bathrobe tied with leather belt and plastic lightsaber from Target. A superman costume is also easy to make, but a lot more time consuming than a jedi. I helped a friend put one together for a comic convention. Get a blue bodysuit from pretty much any dance supply store (blue ski thermals would work also, but the bodysuit looks better). Then, find a lingerie store and buy a pair of boy-short style red underwear. You may also be able to find something similar at the dance store. Next, buy a pair of red knee socks (can be found at pretty much any sports supply store where they sell baseball socks) and red shoes (just the socks works fine...you only need shoes if you're walking around outside. It looks better with just the socks). Then, go to a fabric store and get some red and yellow fabric. Cut out the superman logo and safety-pin it to the shirt (from the inside, of course, so the pins don't show much...staples or duct tape can work also, or fabric glue). Use the leftover red fabric as a cape. Put on the bodysuit with the logo, put the boy-shorts and socks on over the bodysuit. Attach cape with safety pins.

Timing is a really tough call. Sometimes, even parents can make mistakes about the maturity level of the child, either providing too much info too soon, or too little, too late. When I was in junior high school (grades 7 and 8), there were several students that were having sex. Junior high age students can range from about age 11 to age 14 or so, and in the district I went to school in, education about sex, STDs, and pregnancy prevention didn't happen until 9th or 10th grade, depending on the high school. One of those junior high students got pregnant. I have no idea what happened to her; her parents pulled her out of that school, and we never saw her again. I do wonder, though, if she'd had a little more information, whether that pregnancy could have been avoided. There's been cases of girls getting their first period as young as age five. Between age 8 to 12 seems to be average. At that point, those girls are probably physically capable of getting pregnant. I'm not sure that it's such a good idea to withhold sex ed from students until grade 9 or 10 (ages 13 to 16, usually), when some of those girls may be physically capable of getting pregnant up to five or more years earlier.

I have a standing bargain with a friend. When he skydives, I will bungee jump the next weekend. He keeps saying he's going to come skydive, but somehow I doubt it.

Find a good nutritionist and a good personal trainer. Do what they tell you to do.

Hawaii.

Rasp Caramel Cashew You scored 48% Dark, 70% Crunch, and 82% Chewy! You are a raspberry caramel cashew bouchee (that's a mouthful!): Cream raspberry caramel and cashews surrounded by white chocolate, and topped with a solid dark chocolate medallion. You are a very sweet, creative, and mentally-stimulating person. You love to be original and at times can be intense, but not to a frightening degree which is nice. You're not wild, just passionate about the things you love. You could probably stand to let go of the routine a bit and just get out there and have some fun, but overall, you are a lovely gem to find.

Will his car insurance cover the lost gear?

I prefer the spiral notebooks with the spiral on top rather than on one side or the other. That way, I can use whatever hand I feel like using. I think that video games and computers have encouraged children (and adults) to develop small motor skills in both hands...it seems like there's a lot more ambi people now than there were fifteen years ago.

Personally, i usually just pause the movie and hit control-printscreen, then paste the screenshot into ms paint or photoshop, and crop.

Of course we can't prove evolution. Science, by nature, does not prove anything at all. It only disproves. When scientists cannot disprove a theory, it is taught as the best explanation we currently have for the way things function. Theories are always open to revision, and scientists are generally just as thrilled when they manage to disprove a theory as they are when they manage to support it. One of the biggest differences between religion and science is that with science, it doesn't matter if you "believe in it" or not. The basis of creationism/intelligent design is in religion and the history of the people, not in science. Students should be exposed to the Jewish/Christian creation myth, along with a good chunk of other creation myths in history or social studies class, as well as the theory of evolution (in science class), which should be presented in its appropriate scientific context: as a theory, not a fact, because theories and facts are two entirely different things, and one, by definition, cannot become the other. Intelligent design/creation science are not genuine scientific theories. They are an attempt to use scientific-sounding arguments to uphold a religious belief, the belief that the creation story told in the Bible is literally true. The scientific method starts with a question, like, "Why are some fossil animals so different from the animals around us today?" and finds the best explanation that cannot be disproven using through observation and experimentation. You look at a hypothesis and do your damnest to disprove it. When you and other scientists can't disprove it, it then becomes a theory. The creationist method starts with an answer, then looks for evidence that seems to fit. (http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/3117_evolution_creation_and_scien_12_7_2000.asp) Theories are not just fuzzy, uncertain ideas that are a step on the path towards becoming facts. A theory is not a fact, and a fact is not a theory. A fact is an observation, something that can be seen to be true or false with little or no interpretation. To a scientist, a theory is a conceptual framework that explains existing observations and predicts new ones. A key factor to keep in mind is that the term "theory" is used by scientists in a manner different from common usage. For most contexts, a theory is just a vague and fuzzy idea about how things work - in fact, one which has a low probability of being true. This is where we get the complaint that something in science is "only a theory" and hence shouldn't be given a great deal of credibility. For scientists, however, a theory is a conceptual structure which is used to explain existing facts and predict new ones. (about.com) If you only teach kids facts, and not how to interpret those facts (theories), they only get half of the scientific process. Evolution cannot be dismissed simply because it is a theory. Here is a list of common scientific theories: http://www.radix.net/~bobg/timeline/theories.html If all of these were removed from the curriculum, just because they were theories, there wouldn't be a science class, because there would be nothing to teach! Science is not just about observation (fact), it is about explanation (theories). Without learning theories, it is impossible to learn science. The current consensus among philosophers of science seems to be this: * Laws are generalizations about what has happened, from which we can generalize about what we expect to happen. They pertain to observational data. The ability of the ancients to predict eclipses had nothing to do with whether they knew just how they happened; they had a law but not a theory. * Theories are explanations of observations (or of laws). The fact that we have a pretty good understanding of how stars explode doesn't necessarily mean we could predict the next supernova; we have a theory but not a law. William McComus (Science Prof, USC) lists gravity as a modern example of a well-established law for which no really satisfying theory is available. We can use the Law of Gravity, and even correct it for the effects of relativity (General Relativity), but we don't have any consensus notion of how it functions! Is it geometry or gravitons?

I don't think all christians are rude, illogical, close minded and/or violent. I do think that the ones that are can give the rest a bad reputation. The christians that are in-your-face, whether it's coming up and literally waving a bible in your face when you're minding your own business at an outdoor shopping area, blowing up family planning clinics in the name of god, or protesting at soldier's funerals, those are the christians people remember, because they're profoundly negative experiences, and in the human mind, one very bad experience can outweigh hundreds of somewhat pleasant ones. I guess it's somewhat similar to the negative way the population has been reacting against muslims since 9-11. As individuals, people may have had hundreds of interactions with perfectly nice and pleasant muslims, but one very bad incident tainted the perception of the religion and its followers as a whole in the minds of many. It's basic instinct, I think... even something as simple as a dog bite... you can have hundreds of good experiences with animals, but if you have a run-in with one particular vicious dog, it can instill a lifelong aversion/fear of dogs, whether that fear/aversion is logical or not, and the person will be fearful even if the particular dog in front of them is the sweetest puppy ever. Because of that one encounter, the person expects all dogs to present a threat. It's simply human nature to want to avoid/push away something or someone we believe will create a confrontational, negative, or threatening situation. (note: I am not comparing christians to dogs. I am comparing the reactions of human beings to very negative experiences, regardless of the source, and how we tend to categorize things and people in order to avoid placing ourselves in the situation again). I've really enjoyed reading your posts, SkyKat. It's been nice to read a christian perspective that doesn't seek to convince or convert, merely to explain and allow people to decide. It's been very refreshing, and it's much easier to look at your posts from a logical viewpoint rather than an emotional one, because you make an effort not to condemn or judge people who believe differently. It seems like you're looking at Jesus' whole message, rather than getting stuck in the details and missing the big picture. A friend once told me "I'd like christians a lot more if they acted more like christ." and I think you're really trying to do that. I look forward to reading more of your posts.

Euros everywhere. I was in Ireland in 2003, and Euros were the only currency we ever encountered. Everything is priced in Euros, and everyone expects to be paid in Euros.

The problem with not teaching proper birth control in schools is that many kids will only get the abstinance message from schools and parents (remember that big push for "abstinance only" education?). The problem here is that some kids are going to have sex anyway. If they don't know about birth control, they usually end up pregnant, which can be a problem for society as a whole. When students are not educated about ways to prevent pregnancy, they hear stuff like this from their friends: # You can't get pregnant if it's your first time. # Jumping up and down immediately after intercourse will prevent conception. # Douching with Coca-Cola or 7-Up will kill whatever sperm the process doesn't wash away. # It's impossible to get pregnant if you have sex during your period. # After intercourse, a hot bath or a heating pad on the stomach prevents conception. # As long as neither party takes off their underpants, no babies will result. # Taking 20 Aspirin right after will halt conception from taking place. # Provided you do it standing up or with the girl on top, the sperm will never reach the egg. # As long as he pulls out before he ejaculates, the girl can't get pregnant # Sneezing after sex prevents pregnancy. Although the list is from a website, I heard most of this from other students when I was in high school. Of course, everything on the list is totally false. Of every 100 women whose partners use withdrawal, 19 will become pregnant during the first year. Basically, what it comes down to is: do you want your child (and her friends and potential boyfriends) to get accurate information from a teacher, or do you want her to hear "you can't get pregnant if you jump up and down" or some other nonsense from her friends in the locker room? She WILL hear incorrect information from her friends, guaranteed.

Life is too short to drink cheap vodka.

I hope you're making this up. If not: get a shotgun and go to the range and learn how to use it. A gun won't do you any good if you don't know 100% how to use it. go to the police. If she witnessed a murder, she needs to report it.

If i can finish it in time, I'll have an Air Bear for your raffle. =)

Take the bus to the green line from the airport. get off the green line at the norwalk stop, take the shuttle to the metrolink station (really, easy and not as complicated as it sounds). Then, take the metrolink to the riverside station (bout a 60 minute trip, way faster than driving), and take the 208 bus to the stop at the corner of 4th and D street in perris. it's about four blocks away from the dropzone. you can get the train schedules at www.metrolinktrains.com and the 208 route here http://www.riversidetransit.com/maps/208.htm If you're travelling on a weekend, take The Metropolitan Express (private) bus or Metro Bus (public) routes #439 and #42 which travel from LAX to downtown Los Angeles and to Union Station. From union station, take Amtrak to riverside. Also, if you want to make the first part of your trip easier on a weekday, you can take the above busses to union station, and get on metrolink or amtrak from there. A bit out of your way, but fewer transfers to worry about.

Talk to his supervisor. If he isn't fired, talk to the supervisor's supervisor. After that, talk to a lawyer. Stuff like this is really serious, because it prevents people from going back to the police when they really need help, becase they believe that they won't get assistance because of their beliefs or lack thereof. The officer's behavior was inappropriate and highly unprofessional, and could be considered discriminatory on the basis of religion, which is not only illegal, but unconstitutional.

Damn... there are decent ways to break things off with someone, but serving them with papers on V-day is not one. That was cruel. Also, I know that you probably don't want to think about this, but please, get a lawyer if you haven't already, especially with kids involved. The longer you wait, the easier it is for the soon-to-be-ex to cause havoc. I'm really sorry...stuff like this sucks.

You need to talk to a real estate attorney, preferably one that also specializes in tax law. You don't want to get stuck in the quagmire of gift taxes, write-offs, and such. I remember enough from my income tax law class to know that this could be a real mess if not properly handled.