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McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case, in which the death sentence of Warren McCleskey for armed robbery and murder was upheld. The Court said the "racially disproportionate impact" in the Georgia death penalty indicated by a comprehensive scientific study was not enough to mitigate a death penalty determination without showing a "racially discriminatory ...
The body of four-year-old Zachary Longo was found on December 19, 2001, in Lint Slough, a backwater of the Alsea River estuary. Divers located the body of three-year-old Sadie on December 22, less than a mile (1.6 km) offshore in the Pacific Ocean. 34-year-old Mary Jane and their two-year-old daughter Madison were found five days later.
System justification theory is a theory within social psychology that system-justifying beliefs serve a psychologically palliative function. It proposes that people have several underlying needs, which vary from individual to individual, that can be satisfied by the defense and justification of the status quo, even when the system may be disadvantageous to certain people.
"Life's a climb. But the view is great." There are times when things seemingly go to plan, and there are other moments when nothing works out. During those instances, you might feel lost.
Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents.
In the history of the species, being expelled from one’s group was a death sentence. Second, normal people have deep needs for status, power, and the control of resources and they find the loss of status existentially threatening. In the history of the species, losing status was a major threat to survival.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
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