Washington (CNN) -- A U.S. Marine allegedly stabbed another Marine to death after a bar fight early Saturday morning across the street from the Marine Barracks in the nation's capital, police said.

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Another holidaymaker described how persuading his girlfriend to have one more drink in a nearby bar saved them from death.

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Mr McCartney was stabbed to death after a row in a Belfast bar on 30 January.

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Despite the coalition troops' reduced visibility, their January death toll was higher than in any previous month, bar November.

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In 1997, the American Bar Association, which does not oppose the death penalty as such, called for a general moratorium until jurisdictions put procedures in place to ensure that capital punishment is administered fairly, impartially, and with minimal risk that innocent people will die.

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Mighty as Microsoft may be, it can be done to death by the proverbial 1, 000 cuts from plaintiff-bar lawsuits.

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The present drive for a moratorium is backed not only by the death penalty's usual opponents but also by the American Bar Association, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and such influential newspapers as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and the St Louis Post-Dispatch.

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There were no celebrations planned yet at the dark bar decorated with combat memorabilia, a framed article announcing the death of Osama bin Laden and a bronze plaque quoting W.C.

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"It's emotionally more difficult for the victims than it would be had the state sought life, " said Dan Schoen, a death-penalty opponent and the executive director of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar.

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Lampkin, 27, faces charges in Virginia in connection with the March 30 shooting death of Marcellus Greene, a security guard at Q-Ball's bar.

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Billy now runs the pub that his father owned until his death in 2002, and, in the tradition of Listowel pub owners, lives upstairs from the bar stools and taps that draw in crowds of locals every night.

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