Word: proving
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...burden for the prosecutors in this phase is to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that McVeigh's crimes involved one or more "aggravating circumstances." If blowing up a building full of people and killing and wounding hundreds of them isn't an aggravating circumstance, it is hard to imagine what would be. Nevertheless, there are certain legal requirements the government must meet. The federal death- penalty statute lists 15 possible aggravating circumstances, and the prosecution is trying to prove that four of these apply--that deaths occurred while McVeigh was committing various felonies, that he created a grave risk...
...appeal on a study that showed killers of white people were four times as likely to get the death penalty as killers of nonwhites. That wasn't enough to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court, which found in a 5-to-4 vote that the statistical disparity didn't prove that McClesky had been sentenced to death because of skin color. McClesky's charge was supported by a 1990 report by the General Accounting Office, which found that blacks who kill whites are sentenced to death at a far higher rate than whites who kill blacks...
...these guys are even more partisan, and more explicitly so, than Reed." Putting Reed's torch in such hands suggests the coalition is ready to concentrate on its natural constituency -- white, Protestant, conservative Republicans -- and forget overtures across political and ethnic lines. But preaching exclusively to the choir could prove limiting when the 1998 Congressional elections roll around. Certainly Tate, who pushed English-as-an-official-language legislation and immigration crackdowns while in office, is not the man to extend Reed's tentative forays into untapped black and Hispanic communities. At 1.8 million members and more than 1,900 chapters...
...quicksilver, always moving and creepily intense, more like the wily loon that Stallone would blow away in Reel 5. Cage is a prime serious actor, and he has last year's Best Actor Oscar, for his role as the weary romantic suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas, to prove it. "I never saw myself as a realist," he says. "I always saw myself as a stylist trying to give a different slant on reality...
...televised sport is that a long play-off series delivers a slam dunk of advertising dollars. In the case of the N.B.A., 85% of the ads are sold in advance as a four-year package. Only 15% of the ads are sold after it is established that extra games prove necessary--and often the leftover spots aren't worth that much more...