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Frontline plans to edit the deliberations and air them as part of a documentary. The award-winning series chose Harris County because juries there have sentenced more people to death than juries in any other county in the U.S. After two years of research on death-penalty trials, Frontline decided to focus on what prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges agreed was the most important aspect of a capital case: the 12 men and women who are uniquely empowered to sentence a defendant to death...
...household name in Ireland. If Rose Dugdale seemed a character out of a B-movie, the next gangster to target Russborough House actually inspired two feature films about his life and crimes. Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill - a.k.a. the General - had the posthumous privilege of being portrayed by Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey in the thinly fictionalized Ordinary Decent Criminal, released in 2000. (Two years earlier, Brendan Gleeson played the title role in The General.) The real-life Cahill was Ireland's most colorful crook. Fat and balding, he had a passion for pigeons, Harley-Davidson motorbikes and two Dublin...
Rippel said he envisioned the IOP using its financial resources to fund public programs, such as a national award recognizing civics teachers...
...Degrees-r-us.com proudly states: “It is a time honored University practice to award diplomas to individuals who, although not enrolled in the University, have done something to cause the University to acknowledge and to honor them. There are no laws, nor rules, that dictate who is and who is not awarded a diploma...
...August 2002, Goelman flew to Los Angeles and donned his tuxedo for the Writers of the Future award ceremony. “Having Sean Ashton—he played Sam in The Lord of the Rings—ask for your autograph was very entertaining,” he says. And though the awards ceremony took place in the Scientology building, Goelman claims that “L. Ron Hubbard’s award is quite separate from Scientology...