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Florida's reprieve for killers resulted from the June 1972 U.S. Supreme Court decision against capital punishment. Immediately following the decision, the Florida high bench ruled that if there is no capital punishment, there can be no capital offense. Hence, first-degree murder (which normally has no statute of limitations on prosecution) was reduced to a lesser offense and made subject to a two-year statute. In December 1972 the state re-enacted the death penalty and put capital offenses back on the books. Unconsidered was the fact that arrests for any murders that took place during the five...
Firsts went flying at Yankee Stadium last night as the Red Sox and the Yankees broke into a bench-clearing brawl in the seventh inning of a game the Sox raced...
...Bobby Murcer, Johnny Bench, A1 Oliver, Aurelio Rodriguez...
...losing team, so his true wish was fulfilled. He portrays Cousy, his childhood hero heroically entering a game in 1969 to replace Oscar Robertson--and then throwing the ball away and losing his man to blow the game for the team he should have stayed on the bench coaching...
...Crimson quickly stomped that out of them, too. Only 11 seconds into the second half, Mackenzie scored to build the lead to 10, and less than a minute later Tennis beat his man from the left again. Harvard led, 13-2, and starting goalie Jim Michelson retired to the bench...