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Speakers also included out-of-state residents such as Brian K. Chidester, a CEDP Rhode Island organizer...
Chidester said Rhode Island's last execution was in 1845, when an Irish immigrant who was later found innocent was executed for killing his boss...
...Rhode Island is one of thirteen states in which the death penalty is illegal. Chidester warned if Massachusetts passes the death penalty, it will create a domino effect...
...season's unexpected hit and given NBC its highest ratings for a new drama since the unleashing of ER. Our heroine on Providence is a thirtysomething doctor who rids herself of her agent boyfriend and Malibu beach-house life to move home to the presumably less decadent shores of Rhode Island and work at a health clinic. Similarly, over on Lifetime, "the women's network," its three first-ever original programs--the drama Any Day Now and the comedies Maggie and Oh Baby--focus on women who renounce yuppie partnering fantasies for loftier pursuits. In fact, just like Providence...
Indeed, as it stands now, public opinion in Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont will have three times the influence over the president's fate as public opinion in New York, even though New York has six times the combined population of those states. In the most extreme case, if the only Americans who favored conviction were a slim majority of citizens in the 34 least populous states, and those states' senators voted the will of those majorities, then the President would be expelled at the behest of 16 percent of Americans, with 84 percent of Americans supporting acquittal...