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Martineau and Nelson received 13 stays of execution, but were spared the death penalty in 1972 when the United States Supreme Court ruled in Furman v. Georgia, that " unitary trial " procedure, in which the jury was asked to return a verdict of guilt or innocence and, simultaneously, determine whether the defendant would be punished by death or life imprisonment, was in violation of the eighth amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Martineau and Nelson
* In 1959, Frederick Martineau and Russell Nelson were convicted of murdering a businessman, in a Nashua parking lot, who was scheduled to testify in a Rhode Island burglary case.
Martineau and received
Martineau received 76. 5 percent of the vote to Bowers's 23. 6 percent.
The giftbook was composed of contributions from various notable figures-Longfellow, Emerson, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Harriet Martineau, and Bayard Talor, among others-none of these received any remuneration for their participation in the publication aside from a copy of The Liberty Bell.
In April 2007, Gord Martineau received a lifetime achievement award from the RTNDA for 40 years in broadcasting.
Louise Martineau received 2, 011 votes ( 4. 55 %), finishing fourth against Liberal incumbent Denis Paradis.
Martineau and 13
Governor Martineau was forced to deal with a major crisis when the Mississippi River broke free of its banks and covered 13 percent of the state during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
Hillcrest School and Sixth Form Centre was opened as Bartley Green Grammar School for Girls on 7 September 1954, though the official opening by Sir Wilfred Martineau did not take place until 13 July 1955.
* The Globe and Mail, 13 December 1985, p. B3, Martineau Walker Advocate ( this obituary states that Martineau died in his 91st year ; i. e. he is assumed to have passed his 90th birthday )
Martineau and were
Despite the pragmatism of classical economists, their views were expressed in dogmatic terms by such popular writers as Jane Marcet and Harriet Martineau.
They were descended from Gaston Martineau, a Huguenot surgeon and refugee, who married Marie Pierre in 1693, and settled in Norwich.
His son and grandson -- respectively the great-grandfather and grandfather of James Martineau -- were surgeons in the same city, while his father was a manufacturer and merchant.
The 19th century had no more reverent thinker than Martineau ; the awe of the Eternal was the very atmosphere that he breathed, and he looked at man with the compassion of one whose thoughts were full of God.
Women who advocated for women's rights such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, and Harriet Martineau were accused of disrupting the natural order of things, and condemned as unfeminine.
He also dealt with the condemnation of Pope Honorius I, carried on a controversial correspondence with John Stuart Mill, and took a leading part in the discussions of the Metaphysical Society, founded by James Knowles, of which Alfred Lord Tennyson, T H Huxley and James Martineau were also prominent members.
Many of her contemporaries, however, were not supportive, including her former friend Harriet Martineau.
Some tourists were fascinated by the rapid growth of the new urban areas: " It is an absorbing thing to watch the process of world-making ; both the formation of the natural and the conventional world ," wrote English writer Harriet Martineau in 1837.
Accounts of these visits written by Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, Lydia Sigourney and Caroline Gilman were published in magazines and travel books.
Three Victoria Crosses were awarded as a result of acts of heroism during the siege, to Sergeant Horace Martineau and Trooper Horace Ramsden for acts during an attack on the Boer Game Tree Fort, and to Captain Charles FitzClarence for Game Tree and two previous actions.
One proponent of Malthusianism was the novelist Harriet Martineau whose circle of acquaintances included Charles Darwin, and the ideas of Malthus were a significant influence on the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution.
Darwin's freethinking brother Erasmus was part of this Whig circle and a close friend of the writer Harriet Martineau who promoted the Malthusianism underlying the controversial Whig Poor Law reforms to stop welfare from causing overpopulation and more poverty, which were then being implemented piecemeal in the face of opposition to the new poorhouses.
Darwin's ideas fitted with the radical Unitarianism of his brother Erasmus's circle including Harriet Martineau, but were heretical to his Anglican friends in the scientific establishment.
They were aided in England by a group of prominent abolitionists, including Harriet Martineau, who arranged for their intensive schooling at the Ockham School in Surrey.
Harriet Martineau, writing in 1838 and recounting tales told to her by New Orleans residents during her 1836 visit, claimed LaLaurie's slaves were observed to be " singularly haggard and wretched "; however, in public appearances LaLaurie was seen to be generally polite to black people and solicitous of her slaves ' health, and court records of the time showed that LaLaurie emancipated two of her own slaves ( Jean Louis in 1819 and Devince in 1832 ).
Nevertheless, Martineau reported that public rumors about LaLaurie's mistreatment of her slaves were sufficiently widespread that a local lawyer was dispatched to Royal Street to remind LaLaurie of the laws relevant to the upkeep of slaves.
Martineau also recounted other tales of LaLaurie's cruelty that were current among New Orleans residents in about 1836.
According to Martineau, this incident led to an investigation of the LaLauries, in which they were found guilty of illegal cruelty and forced to forfeit nine slaves.
A version of this story circulating in 1836, recounted by Martineau, added that the slaves were emaciated, showed signs of being flayed with a whip, were bound in restrictive postures, and wore spiked iron collars which kept their heads in static positions.
" These claims were repeated by Martineau in her 1838 book Retrospect of Western Travel, where she placed the number of unearthed bodies at two, including the child.
Martineau and death
Martineau served in this position until his death nearly a decade later in Little Rock.
A one-time friend, the English writer Harriet Martineau, was one of her harshest detractors after Fuller's death.
As Canadian criminal law aims to maintain proportionality between the stigma and punishment attached to a conviction and the moral blameworthiness of an offender, in R v. Martineau the Supreme Court of Canada held that it is a principle of fundamental justice under sections 7 and 11 ( d ) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that a conviction for murder requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt of a subjective foresight of death.
Serious stomach problems continued to afflict Martineau and contributed to his death just three months after returning from overseas service.
Martineau and when
In 1927, he assumed the post of Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and the next year was elevated to the office of governor when John Ellis Martineau resigned to become a federal judge.
Bowers had also been the Republican nominee in 1926, when he was defeated by Martineau by a similar margin.
He also served as an entertainment reporter and anchor on CITY-TV's CityPulse, and became anchor of CityPulse Tonight in 1987 when Anne Mroczkowski moved from anchoring that newscast to join Gord Martineau on the 6 pm edition.
Similarly, Martineau reported stories that LaLaurie kept her cook chained to the kitchen stove, and beat her daughters when they attempted to feed the slaves.
Martineau and United
Martineau never finished his term as governor, for on March 2, 1928, U. S. President Calvin Coolidge appointed Martineau federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
The appointment was recommended by then United States Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who had worked with Martineau in the Mississippi flood.
* John Ellis Martineau ( 1873 – 1937 ), governor of Arkansas then United States District Court judge
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