Word: suspender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the nine Justices issued nine separate opinions in the court's 1972 decision, the overall vote to suspend the death penalty was 5 to 4. Since then, 34 states have passed new laws trying to meet the various objections raised by the Justices. That in itself seems to indicate that there is substantial popular sentiment for execution in certain specified crimes-a point that could influence the court. Moreover, retired Justice William O. Douglas, who broadly opposed the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment, has been replaced by John Paul Stevens, whose legal philosophy is more moderate...
...editor of the Harvard Law Review defends his decision not to suspend Spiro M. Pavlovich from the Review staff. "You can say whatever you want about him," he says, "but you can't deny he's got the grades...
...hardly to allow for such a solution. More realistically, some favor a brief coup by the military that would forcibly put Isabel on a plane to Spain and then turn the administration over to Luder. A number of younger plotters within the army would like to see the military suspend both the constitution and elections and rule the country directly. These potential rebels are themselves divided: one faction favors a left-wing junta as in Peru, another a right-wing version like Brazil...
...Allahabad decision had triggered a mounting protest campaign by Mrs. Gandhi's opposition that led her to declare a state of emergency and suspend many of India's democratic freedoms. After the Supreme Court's ruling, Mrs. Gandhi emerged from her New Delhi home to speak to a jubilant crowd of her supporters. "In joy and sorrow you have always been with me," she said, denouncing her opponents as "those who started the trouble." The Prime Minister gave no clue as to what she would do next. Unquestionably, she will push ahead on the ambitious social...
...parochial schools, is equally perturbed. Its chairman, Management Consultant Vito Petruzelli, sent to Chicago-area parishioners a letter saying that Cody had "systematically suppressed" the board and had made false statements to it in two instances. Unless Cody responds to its satisfaction, the school board is threatening to suspend itself indefinitely in protest when it meets this week. The Priests' Senate may do the same in September...