Penalty

• Cutts guilty of aggravated murder, could get death penalty

  2008-02-15 20:44:00

  A Stark County jury this morning found Bobby Cutts Jr. guilty of aggravated murder for killing his unborn baby and murder for killing his pregnant lover. Cutts could face the death penalty when his is sentenced later this year. As Judge Charles E. Brown Jr. read the verdicts, Cutts stood stoically. This was in sharp contrast to the sobs and emotional strain that punctuated his four hours of
• New Jersey Abolishes Death Penalty

  2007-12-14 07:29:32

  Looks like NJ Dems were able to push it through using a fiscal responsibility argument.From the WaPo:NEW YORK, Dec. 13 -- New Jersey lawmakers on Thursday became the first in the nation to abolish the death penalty since the Supreme Court restored it in 1976. Opponents of capital punishment hope the state's action may prompt a rethinking of the moral and practical implications of the practice in other states.New Jersey's Democratic-controlled General Assembly voted 44 to 36 on Thursday to repeal the death penalty and replace it with life in prison without parole. The action followed a similar vote by the state Senate on Monday. Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat and a death penalty opponent, has said he will sign the legislation....The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively declared a moratorium on executions since it decided to take up in this term the question of whether lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. In recent decisions, the high court has narrowed the use of ca
• Other penalty calls I'd like to hear

  2007-11-27 20:08:00

  I'm sure you've all heard the "He's giving him the business" penalty call from this past Saturday's Maryland - NC State game. For the 1 or 2 of you that have been living under a rock, here's the most excellent call by ACC Official, and the favorite ref of football fans everywhere, Ron Cherry.Thing is, there is so much more you could do with calling penalties. If refs had the leeway to call more than just holding, offsides, and the like, imagine the fun that could be had..."15 yard Personal foul, 69, offense..."He was giving him the what for!He was giving him the stink eye!He was giving him the bird!He was giving him the the Heimlich!He was giving him the heebie jeebies!He was giving him some shit!He was giving him the love!He was giving him the chills!He was giving him the kiss o' death!He was giving him the silent treatment!He was being a prick!He was being a stick in the mud!He was being a dick!He was mindfucking him!He was claiming the mission accomplished!He was failing miserably!F
• How to Avoid Google's Duplicate Content Penalty

  2007-11-02 15:05:00

  Content geeks, beware!In the realm of theory, where most computer-bound geeks spend the bulk of their existence, ANYTHING is possible; any outcome arguable; any action justifiable. But reality is... [[This is only the post summary. As always, your genuine comments are appreciated and readers are always welcome to leave a non-adult-oriented link to one of their sites after commenting.]]
• Christopher Vaughn Prosecutors seek the death penalty

  2007-10-02 20:10:45

  This is the 3rd update to our ex boss who has been accused of murdering his family in Oswego Illinois, and last week the prosecutors in the case have decided that they will seek the death penalty for what he is being charged with. Namely killing his entire family on a service road. Christopher Vaughn, 32, [...]
• Rafalski’s penalty stats

  2007-07-06 06:34:29

  The Forechecker left me a comment on a recent post saying not to worry too much about the Wings’ new defenseman, Brian Rafalski, who had the most turnovers on the Devils’ squad. His reasoning? I wouldn’t sweat the turnover number, as those are notoriously unreliable and more of an indicator that he plays a ton and has the puck on his stick a lot. A nice “bonus” with Rafalski is that he plays 20+ minutes of solid defense without taking very many penalties, in fact ranking among the league leaders in that category. He even takes fewer minor penalties relative to his ice time than Nick Lidstrom. Staying out of the box is one of the more underrated ways of helping your team win. On the Forecheck did all the statistical work for us and looked at the number of minor penalties taken by defenseman in the NHL. Why? One way to shed a little more light on the play of defensemen is to examine how many minor penalties they take relative to their ice time. For example, if two stalw
• Iran: Porn movie producers to get death penalty under new law

  2007-06-13 17:34:00

  The Iranian parliament Wednesday gave the final green light to a law declaring producers of porn videos and films as "the earth's corrupt" and thus applying to them the capital punishment under the Islamic Republic's interpretation of Sharia law. Under the new law, anyone distributing pornographic material can be sentenced to a fine of up to 16,000 euros while owners of a porn video or film risk up to 76 lashings. More...
• Error on Newark Penalty Corrected... Oh Really?

  2006-10-12 20:34:00

  My Opinion -Today's News Journal Local section says that the error has been corrected. This refers to the huge jury award against the City of Newark this week in Federal Court.It seems that the City was ordered to pay the aggrieved party's attorneys fees ($1.7 Million), and that in the math, the amount was counted twice. Well, that's understandable. I can understand it because the amount of the rest of the award was so large as to minimize the impact of the double counting of the attorney fees. It is good that it was promply corrected today.I think we should look however at what was really the error. The bigger error. The one that is in the neighborhood of $36 Million Dollars. I think we should know what caused that error, and fix it.And the multi-million dollar error that Newark made regarding the adjustment of power charges. Who's going to fix that? Do the people even know about it? I know that I would like to understand it better.What I am crystal clear on however, is that