Word: nebraska
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...first defeated Joey Calavitta of Cal-Fullerton, 5-4 before going on to a thrilling victory over Penn's Jonathon Gough. Avenging a loss to Gough from earlier this season, Odom grappled to a 6-4 win. He then fell 12-4 to No. 11 seed Joe Henson of Nebraska...
Game over. We lose. Roughly following the precedent of Portugal and Spain's Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, China and the Postal Service will partition their conquered territory with an imaginary line through Omaha, Nebraska. The People's Republic will claim everything east of the line and the Postmaster General everything to the west...
CANDIDATE: Bill Bradley SIDEKICK: Bob Kerrey, Nebraska Senator BLANDLY OBSEQUIOUS QUOTE: "All politicians aren't the same. Bill Bradley is different." PREVIOUS SIDEKICK EXPERIENCE: Five years as Senate intelligence committee vice chairman WHAT'S IN IT FOR HIM: Dislikes Clinton, dislikes Gore, likes Knicks tickets MODEL TV DUO: Hawkeye Pierce and B.J. Hunnicutt
...murder in 1984, Tarver was hours from death when the Justices issued a stay of execution and agreed to consider the inmate's claim that Alabama's primary mode of execution - the electric chair - violates his Eighth Amendment rights, which protect him against cruel and unusual punishment. Alabama, Nebraska and Georgia are the only remaining states to use the electric chair exclusively, and have faced a growing tide of criticism in recent years after several botched executions, which resulted in more blood and highly visible pain than anyone was prepared for. Alabama officials responded to Tarver's pleas, according...
...hear McClesky v. Kemp, which questioned the constitutionality of executions in Georgia, where, the suit alleged, the death penalty was sought considerably more often in cases involving white victims than it was when the victims were black. The Court decided in favor of Georgia. Then last year the Nebraska legislature, concerned about what it saw as the overrepresentation of minorities on death row, voted in favor of a permanent moratorium. The vote was vetoed by Gov. Mike Johanns. And now Illinois. As the judicial and political wheels slowly turn in addressing the issues involved in capital punishment, only one thing...