Word: deathly
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Newspapers used to die all the time, and nobody thought a thing about it because other newspapers were being born. The law of the jungle is brutal but not particularly sad. Somewhere around the time television got big, though, the newspaper birthrate fell close to zero; after that, every death was one step closer to extinction. You see the difference in the history of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Its 146-year life span is a tale of dead start-ups, relaunches, mergers, fierce competition--all bloody and robust and healthy. Now the P-I is gone but for a skeleton...
...Mexico An End to the Death Penalty Governor Bill Richardson, in a last-minute action he called "the most difficult decision in my political life," signed a bill making New Mexico the 15th state to ban capital punishment since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976. (New Mexico has executed only one person since then.) Richardson said he was prompted to endorse the ban after visiting the state's death chamber and reviewing death-row exonerations. In 2008, 37 people were executed in the U.S.--the most in the world, after China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty...
...States where the death penalty is illegal...
...States where the death penalty is legal...
...five death-penalty states, accounting for 66% of all U.S. executions since...