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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Royal pardons for capital punishment had become routine at the time for most common crimes. Under the Judgment of Death Act 1823, a "death recorded" sentence allowed the judge to meet common law sentencing precedent, while avoiding being mocked by the sentenced, or the public, who realised an actual death penalty sentence was likely to be overridden. [2]
Due to the unpredictability of such circumstances, deaths of judges in active service are more likely to lead to judicial appointment controversies (where one party resists the confirmation of a judge appointed by a president of the other party); such deaths occasionally change the structure of the court itself, as legislators may seek to avoid changing the balance of a particular court by ...
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George Pratt (artist) (born 1960), American painter and graphic novelist; George Pratt (missionary) (1817–1894), author of the first Samoan language grammar and dictionary; George Dupont Pratt (1869–1935), environmentalist; George Pratt (1935-2017), musical academic (Keele, Huddersfield), member of The Master Singers
His death was probably due to his chronic medical history of kidney and bladder stones leading to an acute infection, kidney failure and possibly toxaemia. [7] Writing as recently as 1929, Sir John C. Fox [9] said: Even to the present day, the mothers of West Somerset control their unruly offspring by threatening to send for 'Judge Jeffreys'. [10]
George Duncan Painter OBE (5 June 1914 – 8 December 2005), [1] known as George D. Painter, was an English author most famous as a biographer of Marcel Proust.