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Despite the high-profile second-guessing, most Americans favor capital punishment even though they don't fully trust the system that administers it. Not long before the 300th execution in Texas, a poll by the Scripps Howard Data Center found that three-quarters of Lone Star residents supported the death penalty. But a shocking 69% also said they believe the state has executed innocent people. National polls have generated similar results. In a Gallup poll released in May, 73% of the respondents said they thought at least one innocent had been put to death in the previous five years...
Queen said he felt the lone complaint carried the weight of many...
...live less than a mile from Arlington National Cemetery. Somewhere around 10 p.m. each evening, a lone bugler stands on a hillside underneath the shadow of a moonlit tree and sounds his mournful tune into the darkness...
...Rakoczy ‘04, a social studies concentrator in Lowell House, is associate managing editor of The Crimson. She is spending her summer days interning in our nation’s hot, humid and hectic capital, and is grateful for the nightly reality check provided by the lone bugler in Arlington Cemetery...
...regulate commerce ... among the several states" as the means to legitimize federal mandates on racial integration. To Rehnquist, this is a perversion of the Constitution, and he has been on a three-decade-long quest to rein in federal power. As early as 1975 he was arguing--in another lone dissent--that states could resist a mandate from Congress by asserting that the framers believed in much greater state sovereignty. And here he has made the most headway, getting a majority of Justices to agree with him that a variety of federal laws overstepped the limits of congressional power...