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  2. Martin Fleischmann - Wikipedia

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    Martin Fleischmann FRS (29 March 1927 – 3 August 2012) was a British chemist who worked in electrochemistry. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons , [ 5 ] regarding excess heat in heavy water, caused a media sensation and elicited skepticism and criticism from many in the scientific community.

  3. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Death Penalty Worldwide: Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world. Smile of death: China History Punishment

  4. List of women on death row in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Blackmon was convicted in the death of her two-year-old adopted daughter, Dominiqua Bryant. According to an autopsy report, the child suffered a fractured skull, several broken bones, bruises and a shoeprint on her chest. 22 years, 8 months and 14 days Because the victim was under the age of 14, Blackmon was eligible for the death penalty.

  5. Votes on the death of Louis XVI - Wikipedia

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    The severest criminal penalty short of death. Abstained fr:Jean-Jacques Fiquet: Yes Yes Confinement during the war and deportation after peace is declared Yes fr:Marie Jean François Philibert Le Carlier d'Ardon: Yes No Death No fr:Pierre Loysel: Yes Yes Death with a reprieve until the people accept the new constitution Yes fr:André Dupin de ...

  6. Capital punishment by country - Wikipedia

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    Death penalty for murder; instigating a minor's or a mentally ill's suicide; treason; terrorism; a second conviction for drug trafficking; aircraft hijacking; aggravated robbery; espionage; kidnapping; being a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit a capital offence; attempted murder by those sentenced to life imprisonment if the attempt ...

  7. Julius Streicher - Wikipedia

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    Fleischmann sued Streicher and disproved the allegations in court, where Streicher was fined 900 marks. [ c ] Der Stürmer ' s official slogan, Die Juden sind unser Unglück (the Jews are our misfortune), was deemed non-actionable under German statutes, since it was not a direct incitement to violence.

  8. Gregg v. Georgia - Wikipedia

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    The Court also found that the death penalty "comports with the basic concept of human dignity at the core of the [Eighth] Amendment". The death penalty serves two principal social purposes—retribution and deterrence. "In part, capital punishment is an expression of society's moral outrage at particularly offensive conduct".

  9. Execution by shooting - Wikipedia

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    Execution by shooting is a method of capital punishment in which a person is shot to death by one or more firearms. It is the most common method of execution worldwide, used in about 70 countries, [ 1 ] with execution by firing squad being one particular form.