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  2. Entry into force - Wikipedia

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    By means of an explicit commencement date (and sometimes time of day) written into the act itself. It is possible for different sections of an act to come into force at different dates or times. As a result of a commencement order. Usually, an Act or part of an Act may only be brought into force by a commencement order if explicit provision is ...

  3. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    The execution method is associated with counterfeits (by pouring down the neck) or traitors (by pouring on the head). [6] Brazen bull. The victim was put inside an iron bull statue and then cooked alive after a fire was lit under it (of disputed historicity). Crushing: By a weight, abruptly or as a slow ordeal.

  4. Capital punishment by the United States federal government

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    The first federal execution was that of Thomas Bird on June 25, 1790, for committing "murder on the high seas", after he murdered his captain while serving on a slave ship. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The use of the death penalty in U.S. territories was handled by federal judges and the U.S. Marshal Service .

  5. List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States

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    There is no legal impediment against Boyd's execution. Demetrius Terrence Frazier Jefferson: 0000Z608 Final petition for a writ of certiorari denied by the United States Supreme Court on October 1, 2012. [17] An execution date has been authorized by the Alabama Supreme Court, with the specific date yet to be set by Governor Kay Ivey. Tony Barksdale

  6. Panetti v. Quarterman - Wikipedia

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    Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S. 930 (2007), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, ruling that criminal defendants sentenced to death may not be executed if they do not understand the reason for their imminent execution, and that once the state has set an execution date death-row inmates may litigate their competency to be executed in habeas corpus proceedings. [1]

  7. Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    The last execution in San Marino had taken place in 1468. In Portugal, after legislative proposals in 1852 and 1863, the death penalty was abolished in 1867. The last execution in Brazil was 1876; from then on all the condemnations were commuted by the Emperor Pedro II until its abolition for civil offences and military offences in peacetime in ...

  8. Military designation of days and hours - Wikipedia

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    "Victory over Japan"; designates 14 August 1945, the date of Japan's unconditional surrender. Otherwise VP Day in Australian usage. [9] W-Day The effective day the President takes the adversary decision to prepare for war (unambiguous strategic warning). (US) X-Day 1 November 1945, the day Operation Downfall (the invasion of Japan) was to begin ...

  9. Roper v. Simmons - Wikipedia

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    Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that it is unconstitutional to impose capital punishment for crimes committed while under the age of 18. [1]