Word: mooted
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...couldn't legally be electrocuted, and in Alabama, that means he can't be executed. Any judicial review will take months, if not years, to wrap up," says Sanders. The Court was poised several months ago to examine a similar case in Florida, until the state rendered the arguments moot by replacing electrocution with the more popular (and, its supporters argue, more "humane") lethal injection as its chief method of execution. Tarver's lawyers are hoping Alabama won't use the same strategy to expedite their client's execution; they maintain Tarver, who is black, was denied a jury...
...worry about homogenization may be a moot point: While the plan erases the personalities of each house, each school will eventually take on equally distinctive personalities...
...Bill Clinton has the type of year he wants, all of the candidate debates over how to spend America's projected budget surpluses will be moot. It seems that the post-Y2K Clinton has narrowed his focus to fulfilling seven-year-old campaign promises, and has been churning multibillion-dollar proposals through the White House almost daily. The latest proposal could help avenge the biggest embarrassment of his presidency (well, the biggest policy embarrassment): the failed Bill/Hillary health care reform of 1992-93. On Wednesday the President proposed a $28 billion plan to subsidize long-term care for those with...