Word: provisionally
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The main sticking point was habeas corpus, the constitutional provision that allows state prisoners to challenge their convictions in federal courts. Since the restoration of the death penalty in 1976, some defendants have used the habeas rules to extend the appeals process and delay executions for a decade on average...
Late last week Clinton's team was concentrating its fire on Richard Bryan of Nevada and Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin. Worried about the impact that limited deductions for entertainment would have on Nevada's casinos, conferees wrestled with an exemption on "live entertainment" that they dubbed the "Wayne Newton provision...
Elsewhere, this might have had no official consequence. But in 1990, Washington responded to a rash of gruesome sex crimes with the bold and much debated Community Protection Act, addressing sexually violent predators. Its most controversial provision -- that at the moment of their release, habitual, violent sexual offenders may be...
Mansfield's stance found some support, as the Faculty voted to drop the report's provision encouraging participation in national debate. But a number of faculty members stood strongly against Houthakker and Mansfield.
Mansfield also proposed that a provision that does not absolve an intoxicated student of responsibility in perpetrating rape be broadened to require consent.