In 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act made brain death a legal form of death in all 50 states.
He returned last month after four years in self-imposed exile to make a political comeback despite legal challenges and Taliban death threats, but has since faced paltry public support.
Despite the death threats and legal issues, his music is doing well.
Enable families of people missing presumed dead to get a certificate to that effect, with equal legal force to an ordinary death certificate.
Currently, 33 states, plus the federal government and the U.S. military, have the legal option of imposing the death penalty, while 17 plus the District of Columbia do not.
Reprieve, a legal charity which campaigns against death row, intervened after being contacted by lawyers for two death row inmates, Ralph Baze in Kentucky and Edmund Zagorski in Tennessee.
Prosecutors didn't disclose whether they would seek the death penalty, a legal but rare form of punishment in Colorado that would be applicable in this case.
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Not a few people in legal and political circles believe the death penalty is out of step with the times, especially in a country with a democracy as robust as South Korea's.
Xinhua has said the men had had their "legal rights fully respected" while on death row.
After much criticism, a few death threats, and some legal concerns, the newspaper pulled the map down.
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Wickham, the group's executive director, says Polst programs provide legal protection to medical personnel for hastening death, thus encouraging imposed death on patients.
Now legal teams have moved on to the death of Raychel Ferguson who was a Primary 5 pupil at St Patrick's Primary School in Derry.
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of children have been needlessly exposed to injury or death to serve a flawed legal strategy and the lawyers are silent.
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In the case of a federal guilty plea or conviction, the central question surrounding the death penalty, according to legal experts, would be whether Mr. Tsarnaev and his lawyers could persuade prosecutors that he should be spared perhaps by extensively cooperating or by demonstrating that he deserved leniency.
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The death of Baby P, who cannot be named for legal reasons, took place in the same borough where eight-year-old Victoria Climbie was tortured to death in 2000 by her aunt and her aunt's boyfriend.
He returned last month despite the legal challenges against him, as well as death threats by the Pakistani Taliban.
He returned despite Taliban death threats and an array of legal challenges.
Typically a bypass trust is worded so that at the time of death assets equivalent to the current legal estate tax exemption divert to the trust, generally benefiting the children.
He recommended that units that failed to adhere to basic standards of care should be prevented from providing services, and if those failings had led to death or serious harm to patients legal sanctions were appropriate.
Reprieve, a legal charity that works with people facing the death penalty, says the men were subjected to beatings and electric shocks - in one case administered to the testicles - and threatened with guns held to their heads.
Mr Francis, in his report, recommended that units that failed to adhere to basic standards of care should be prevented from providing services, and if those failings had led to death or serious harm to patients legal sanctions were appropriate.
Certainly one would not expect a weak-willed coward to surge tens of thousands of combat troops into Afghanistan, nor would you expect such a milquetoast to dispatch a large number of flying death robots to regularly dispense extra legal justice-via-missile across a broad swath of the Middle East and Pakistan.
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Last year only 37 of the 90 death-penalty countries reported carrying out legal executions.
At the same time, she said she had received death threats over her testimony in the legal battles involving Mrs Bettencourt.
Driver Christopher Howson, who had no licence and was twice the legal alcohol limit at the time, admitted causing death by dangerous driving.
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The project had been held up for legal matters, but just days before Linkous' death, it was announced that the record was finally going to see official release this summer.
Legal experts independent of the case weighed in after the death sentence was handed down.
In sum, the office where I serve has achieved a superb record in courts -- of law of significant and hard-fought convictions, of fair and wise decisions not to charge, of thorough and accurate reports on the Vincent Foster death and the Monica Lewinsky matters, of legal victories in various courts.
However, the legal high has not been definitively established as a cause of death.
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