If upheld by the Supreme Court, the circuit court's ruling could lead to the second-largest reduction in the death-row population (now at 3, 500) since capital punishment, as then applied, was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1972.
After that, I layered in some population data (I chose April 2000) to get a gun death rate normalized for population size.
Relative to population the death toll in the last year is the equivalent of 350, 000 thousand Americans or 70, 000 thousand Britons.
Average age of death among those who manage to reach 65 is, unsurprisingly, higher than the average age of death of the whole population.
After the Black Death killed a third of the population of medieval Europe, labour scarcity forced landowners to pay their workers better.
Figures which take account of changes in the size and age of the UK population showed the alcohol-related death rate has hovered at around 18 deaths per 100, 000 men since 2003, after earlier increases.
Though Croatia came in only at No. 5 in terms of per capita consumption, the risky drinking pattern of its population, as well as high death rates from cirrhosis, put it at the top of our list.
They are just tired of being hectored by scientists proclaiming certain apocalypses that never pan out: Examples include acid rain and the death of the forest, asteroids, the population bomb, and a catastrophic extinction of species that has eluded detection.
The Black Death killed one-third of Europe's population, wages rose and the return on capital and land fell.
Last year, some 3, 000 Afghan civilians died in the Afghan War out of a population of 30 million, which makes the civilian death rate from the Afghan war 1 in 10, 000.
Officials maintained, however, that those 65 and older should be vaccinated yearly, for reasons including that this population is at high risk of serious illness, hospitalization and death from the flu.
Even accounting for Colombia's larger population its casualty levels have been around five times greater than the death toll during the Troubles.
Among men with cancer that had spread beyond the prostate (metastatic cancer), the death rate in the first month was more than triple that in the general population.
Compared to the analagous January-July period of 2011, the birth rate increased by 6.7%, the death rate decreased by 2.9%, and the rate of natural population loss plummeted by 60% (from 138, 000 in 2011 to just 57, 000 in 2012).
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The campus homicide rate is about 1 death per 1 million people, compared to 57 deaths per million in the general population.
In the college-age population in general, moreover, homicide is the second leading cause of death, while on college campuses it remains a rare event.
"While there may be some lawbreaking among the cycling population, very few if any of those transgressions of the law are resulting in death or serious injury, " said Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a bicycling advocacy group.
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If you weighed the changes in ozone by the population distribution of the U.S., you get a net increase in the death rate and hospitalization rate due to ethanol.
Although the researchers took into account a wide range of extenuating factors, including diet and exercise regimens, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index, and marital status, it's possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as-yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death.
For Iranians, a predominantly Shiite Moslem population, the 40th day marks the last official day of mourning in the immediate aftermath of a death.
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If you take the whole of the UK population, simple maths tells you that one baby in every 1, 600 born will die from cot death.
If that number seems reassuringly low in a population of 313 million, consider that about 6 million other crack-ups occur each year without a death, resulting in some 3 million injuries.
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