It allows the government to obtain convictions for so-called terrorist crimes without proving any intent to engage in or further terrorism.
With convictions for rape so slow, we need to learn everything possible about what is going wrong.
And convictions for that so-called crime would typically require men, typically black men, to work off their sentences.
In the aftermath of the execution, India Ink explored why the number of convictions for terrorism is so low, and executions of people found guilty of terrorism even rarer.
The bill becomes law as soon as the president, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, signs it as he soon will.After ten years of ferocious dispute in various courts and after three convictions for dishonesty (all so far set aside on appeal or under statute of limitation), Mr Berlusconi is almost, but not quite, off the judicial hook.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Wendell P. Gardner Jr. stated that most of those demonstrators would be sentenced to probation, but that he would perhaps jail those who had prior convictions for civil disobedience so that they would stop doing "the same thing over and over".
And, as my colleague H.B. Rollins points out (personal communication), the passage in this essay bearing on the origin of granite is redolent of the Wernerian convictions for which Robert Jameson was so well known.
Setting to one side the premonitory character of this cartoon, and the strangeness of a magazine editor who was prepared to die for his convictions (or so Charb said after the Charlie Hebdo offices were firebombed in 2011), yet not to get the basic facts about his targets correct, is it right to think of it as satire?
Some decisions are so momentous that they ought to be made unanimously (jury convictions, for instance), while others are so minor they require just a plurality.
I do not believe that two thirds of the Senate would vote for conviction, so I don't think ultimately it would be successful in removing them from office, but as the chairman of a committee that's conducting investigations, I would have no credibility whatsoever if I were part of an effort for impeachment, so I don't even want to consider being a supporter of this idea.
Mr Cameron pledged to introduce legislative changes so that convictions for historic gay sex offences would no longer appear on criminal records and introduce a 'zero tolerance' approach to homophobic bullying in schools.
