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From 1977 to his death, Gottschalk received 14 patents for his lenses and other camera equipment, including body-mounted support apparatuses, vibration dampeners, and camera harnesses. [9] Six additional patents would be granted after his death, the last coming in May 1986. [10] All but three of his inventions are assigned to Panavision. [11]
Robert J. Van Hook: aggravated murder: lethal injection: D Oklahoma: 19 December 2024 [100] Kevin Ray Underwood: aggravated murder: lethal injection: C Oregon: 16 May 1997 [101] Harry Charles Moore: aggravated murder: lethal injection: C Pennsylvania: 6 July 1999 [102] Gary Michael Heidnik: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Puerto Rico: 15 ...
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [206] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [207] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [208] [209] [210] or has a brutalization effect, [211] [212] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [213]
Dangerous Charter is a 1962 seagoing adventure film shot in five days in 1958 on and around Santa Catalina Island.California, with no studio shooting.It was directed, co-produced and co-written by Robert Gottschalk as a showcase for his Panavision process.
Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [87] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row, Michael K. Addison. [88] [89]
Georgia, DPI released its Death Penalty Census, which covers the period from 1972 to January 1, 2021. The database was the result of a years-long effort. [8] The Death Penalty Census will be updated periodically, includes death sentences imposed in U.S. state, federal, and military courts, and includes numerous details about each case. [9]
Robert-François Damiens (1757) – Dismemberment by horses. Limbs could not be torn off and had to be cut. [7] [8] [9] Joseph Samuel (1805) – Hanging (attempted). Survived three attempts to hang him. Sentence commuted to life imprisonment. [citation needed] Charles Getter (1833) – Hanging (attempted). Survived the first attempt to hang him.
Death penalty for murder; instigating a minor's or a mentally ill's suicide; treason; terrorism; a second conviction for drug trafficking; aircraft hijacking; aggravated robbery; espionage; kidnapping; being a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit a capital offence; attempted murder by those sentenced to life imprisonment if the attempt ...