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The Budweiser girls (or Bud girls) are female models promoting Budweiser beer for Anheuser-Busch. The first Budweiser girl appeared in 1883. [1] At various times, the company featured Budweiser girls in television and print advertisements, and hired local models to visit bars in costume for in-person promotions.
446 U.S. 420 (1980) Eighth Amendment overbreadth of an aggravating circumstance required for imposing the death penalty United States V. Mendenhall: 446 U.S. 544 (1980) Police may obtain consent to detain a person and search them under the Fourth Amendment: Walker v. Armco Steel Corp. 446 U.S. 740 (1980)
The Philippines abolished the death penalty in 2006. [15] While the death penalty still exists in the Maldives and Guatemala, no executions have been carried out there since 1954 and 2000 respectively. [16] Taiwan has never actually used the method, instead carrying out all executions by single gunshot. [17]
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After Australian child rapist Peter Scully was arrested in February 2015, several Filipino prosecutors called for the death penalty to be reintroduced for violent sexual crimes. [47] During the 2016 election campaign, presidential candidate and frontrunner Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte campaigned to restore the death penalty in the Philippines.
The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center: Texas, 591. Oklahoma, 126. Virginia, 113. Florida, 106 ...
A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]
But in hindsight, a 1980 advertisement in the Journal Star proved eerily prophetic. The ad promised diners "a new adventure in eating." None could have known that "adventure" would include blurred ...