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Stein added that states with big granite deposits currently being considered in New England include Maine. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Vermont, New York, and Massachusetts...
Ending up in new surroundings wouldn't be a new experience for Britz, who has already lived in Rhode Island, Ontario (twice). California and Marblehead, Mass, (his father, a former Brooklyn Dodger, works for an airline). But he has nothing on his mind now more than his finale with the Crimson this (or, he hopes next) weekend...
Saltonstall said that the Gilbane Construction Co. of Rhode Island, which oversaw the orignal K-School building and is directing the new addition, is not necessarily at fault...
...Other states now without a death penalty: Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Wisconsin...
...most persuasive research compared the homicide rates of states that did and did not prescribe the death penalty. For instance, Michigan, which abolished capital punishment in 1847, was found to have had a homicide rate identical to adjacent states, Ohio and Indiana, that were executing. Similarly, Minnesota and Rhode Island, states with no death penalty, had proportionately as many killings as their respective neighbors, Iowa and Massachusetts, which had capital punishment. In 1939 South Dakota adopted and used the death penalty, and its homicide rate fell 20% over the next decade; North Dakota got along without capital punishment...