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He was removed from death row in January 2012 and in March 2012 the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that all claims of new evidence put on his behalf did not warrant conducting a retrial.
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It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
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Upon complaints from the Lower House of Convocation to the House of Lords, he was removed from the Privy Council, his remark having been represented as a blasphemous affront to the clergy.
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Blood samples were allowed to clot at room temperature for 3 hr, centrifuged and the serum was removed.
The only treatment by which nonspecific staining could be satisfactorily removed was by passing the conjugate through a DEAE-cellulose column.
However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.
The fixed wooden scaffold was removed, and, so as to reach all the frieze, one of pipe, on wheels, built up from the floor.
It is a tribute to her talents that she was able to talk the District Attorney into having her removed from the prison to a hotel room, with her meals taken at Vesuvio's, an excellent Italian restaurant.
This softened the skin so that in the morning when the bandage was removed the corn could be scraped off and a bit of corn plaster put on.
She was the sun, he the closest planet orbiting around her, the rest of the world existing and visible yet removed.
Presently they had to give up running the furnace at full capacity and depend on the old coal range in the kitchen, which had never been removed when the new gas range was installed, and the fireplaces and an electric heater in Grandma's room.
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Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.
Larwood was forced by the MCC to either apologise or be removed from the Test side.
This listing was removed from CITES in June 2010 by the South African government and South African abalone is no longer subject to CITES trade controls.
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In 1979, the USSR removed the term " Ainu " from the list of living ethnic groups of Russia, an act by which the government proclaimed that the Ainu as an ethnic group was extinct in its territory.
His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed.
Agrippina removed or eliminated anyone from the palace or the imperial court who she thought was loyal and dedicated to the memory of the late Messalina.
She also eliminated or removed anyone who she considered was a potential threat to her position and the future of her son, one of her victims being Lucius ' second paternal aunt and Messalina's mother Domitia Lepida the Younger.
After Ealdred's death, one of the restraints on William's treatment of the English was removed.
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They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.
Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.
It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.
Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.
But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.
He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.
An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.
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He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.
laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.
Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.
So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.
Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.
Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;
The Coolidges' life, after the death of their son, was quieter than ever.
Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??
Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??
`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.
So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.
The latter was so upset on learning of the death of Morris, that he wrote Morgan a letter, showing his own warmhearted generosity.
Spring was life -- and Alfred Alpert in his sickroom was death.
It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.
There can be no greater magic than to wrest from death her in whom the flesh was all, in whom beauty was entirely pure because it was entirely corruptible.
The medical examiner states that death was due to `` natural causes ''.
Rathbone said he was bleeding to death.
In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.
One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;
But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.
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