Robert O Marshall, who was spared the death penalty in 2004 after he had spent 18 years on New Jersey's death row convicted of the contract killing of his wife, said the decision was long overdue.

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In such a setting the rule that marriage was necessarily a contract terminated only by the death of one of the spouses was not only moral but socially necessary.

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Boogaard was under contract with the New York Rangers at the time of his death.

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The newspaper reports that investigators are examining whether former Officer David Mack conspired with Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight to arrange the contract murder of the 24-year-old rapper whose real name was Christopher Wallace.

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Mr Crossthwaite said the company should not be awarded the contract while an ongoing police investigation was being carried out into the death of an Angolan detainee, Jimmy Mubenga, while in the care of G4S in 2010.

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Following the death of the charismatic Reuther, the low-key Woodcock was immediately thrust into national contract negotiations with with the "Big Three" auto companies and led the union through a bitter 67-day nationwide strike against General Motors, longest ever.

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So Zuckerman and her husband signed a contract specifically granting her daughter 100% of her assets upon Zuckerman's death.

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