Although the 12 jurors were at first divided on whether to recommend the death penalty or jail for life without parole, some of them seem to have been influenced by Mr Muhammad's calculating manner during his six-week trial.

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Mr Venner's death sharply divided opinion on social media in France.

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Analysts were divided about how Mitchell's death would affect the bank's strategy of building further on its profitable investment banking business and raising the profile of its retail arm.

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It ruled last month, in a bitterly divided 6-5 decision, that prison officials in Arkansas could force Charles Singleton, a prisoner on death row who has become psychotic, to take medication to make him sane enough to be executed.

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