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...killers, baby killers are poster children for the death penalty," Hirschorn says, "and without the option of LWOP you could guarantee the death penalty." In the Houston cop killing case, the lawyers for defendant Juan Quintero initially attempted an insanity defense, citing a traumatic brain injury. Though the jurors rejected it and found Quintero guilty, Mark Bennett, a Houston defense lawyer argued on his blog "Defendingpeople.com" that the head injury testimony lingered in the minds of some jurors, who may have regarded it as a mitigating factor in deciding on a life sentence rather than execution...
...become almost a clichéd gesture to hurl shoes at a poster, a flag or a statue during demonstrations in the Arab world. Perhaps the most iconic example was when U.S. troops helped bring down a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdous Square on April 9, 2003. Hundreds of Iraqis assailed the giant metal corpse, beating it with their shoes in one of the defining images of the fall of Baghdad. How ironic then that President Bush's farewell trip to Iraq will be marked by the image of an angry Iraqi and his shoes. (See pictures...
...connections are striking. You can't look at the black, red and white poster Resolutely Adhere to Execute the July 3rd and July 23rd Proclamations (artist unknown) without wondering if contemporary painter Wang Guangyi would add a Rolex or Coca-Cola logo to it. Zeng Fanzhi's 2005 Chairman Mao with Us looks similar to many of the show's large-scale paintings in which the Great Helmsman marches through fields with peasants (Chairman Mao Inspects the Guangdong Countryside by Chen Yanning) or waves benignly in his bathrobe (Strive Forward in Wind and Tides, by Tang Xiaohe, which commemorates...
...what they want. The country's once soaring economy is in free fall - growth, which has averaged 7% over the past five years, could drop below 2% in 2009, according to economists - and it's taking the rich down with it. Not that long ago, Russia was the poster child for unfettered wealth and freewheeling consumption. Now, with the stock market down more than 70% in the past year and the ruble feeling the strain, the nation's high earners are a little less quick to put their hands in their pockets...
...Unlike their opponents, some of whom rely on dozens of students to hand out fliers and poster, Koenigs and Palmer have no set campaign strategy...