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  2. John Ball (novelist) - Wikipedia

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    John Dudley Ball Jr. (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) [1] was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night , which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an ...

  3. Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [207] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [208] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [209] [210] [211] or has a brutalization effect, [212] [213] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [214]

  4. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    The victim would then suffer from severe diarrhoea, which would attract insects that would burrow and nest in the victim, eventually causing death from sepsis. Of disputed historicity. Slow slicing: The methodical removal of portions of the body over an extended period of time, usually with a knife, eventually resulting in death.

  5. List of death row inmates in the United States who have ...

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    Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.

  6. John Ball - Wikipedia

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    John Ball (16th-century MP) (c.1518–1556), English Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich John Ball (assemblyman) (1756–1838), American soldier and politician John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, MP for Dublin University 1868–1875

  7. Joseph Edward Corcoran - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Edward Corcoran (April 18, 1975 – December 18, 2024) was an American convicted mass murderer who was executed for a quadruple murder case in Indiana. Corcoran was found guilty of the 1997 murders of his brother, his sister's fiancé, and two of their friends at his house in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he was sentenced to death in 1999.

  8. John Ball (priest) - Wikipedia

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    John Ball (c. 1338 [1] – 15 July 1381) was an English priest who took a prominent part in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. [2] Although he is often associated with John Wycliffe and the Lollard movement , Ball was actively preaching "articles contrary to the faith of the church" at least a decade before Wycliffe started attracting attention.

  9. The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints - Wikipedia

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    2. The Death Penalty Will Not Discourage Crime (1764) Cesare Beccaria: Excerpt from An Essay on Crimes and Punishments. 3. Society Must Retain the Death Penalty for Murder (1868) John Stuart Mill: Excerpt from "Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment," in Hansard's Parliamentary Debate. 4. The Death Penalty Is State-Sanctioned Murder (1872 ...