Search

Search results

Displaying 51 - 60

sentence

(Encyclopedia) sentence, in criminal law, punishment that a court orders, imposed on a person convicted of criminal activity. Sentences typically consist of fines, corporal punishment, imprisonment…

Antisocial Brain Tissue Deficit

And other recent science discoveries by Otto Johnson More Discoveries IntroductionIce Age Haute CoutureNew Orleans, the New Atlantis?First Cloned PigletsSnakes with Legs?Our…

Darrow, Clarence Seward

(Encyclopedia) Darrow, Clarence Seward, 1857–1938, American lawyer, b. Kinsman, Ohio. He first practiced law in Ashtabula, Ohio. In 1887 he moved to Chicago, where he was corporation counsel for…

Brewer's: Camisole de Force

A strait-waist-coat. Frequently mentioned in accounts of capital punishments in France. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CamlanCamisole A B C D E F G H…

Botched Executions Raise Concerns

Questions increase over drugs used in lethal injections Related Links Methods of Execution in the U.S. U.S. Prisoners Under Sentence of Death Women on Death Row Number of…

Brewer's: Killed by Inches

In allusion to divers ways of prolonging capital punishments in olden times; e.g.: (1) The “iron coffin of Lissa.” The prisoner was laid in the coffin, and saw the iron lid creep slowly…

Spy Times

Some notable American turncoats by Gerry Brown and Beth Rowen Ethel Rosenberg, 35, and her husband, Julius, 34, ride to separate jails in on New York City March 29, 1951 following…