So the 87 people exonerated after being sentenced to death amount to one reprieve for every seven killed.
His drafts, which his wife found in their garage after his death, amount to several hundred thousand words, and tell of a group of employees at an Internal Revenue Service center in Illinois, and how they deal with the tediousness of their work.
If their estate upon death amounts to more than £234,000, the recipients of a financial gift within the preceding seven years have to pay tax at 40percentnt.
Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, said Bin Laden's death amounted to "a wake-up call" for police chiefs and state and local counterterrorism officials.
Despite the report's apparently unequivocal conclusion on collusion, Wright's father, David, tonight told a press conference in Belfast that the inquiry into his son's death amounted to "firm and final" proof of collusion by state agencies.
Analysts said Bin Laden's death amounted to a double blow for Al Qaeda, after its sermons of anti-Western violence seemed to be rendered irrelevant by the wave of political upheaval rolling through the Arab world.
He added that proposals set out in Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill, which if passed, would let terminally ill people with less than six months to live control the time and manner of their death, amounted to "euthanasia-lite".
No one is claiming that Murphy was one of the acting greats but she does not deserve to be written off as just another Valley of the Dolls screw-up, a bargain-bin Marilyn, whose death amounts to nothing more than another stop on a "Hollywood Deaths" coach tour.
The FBI will investigate the case of Lennon Lacy, the black teenager found hanging in August from a swing set in North Carolina, whose parents have disputed the official ruling that he killed himself and asked whether his death amounted to a modern-day lynching.
The Magazine Information Network estimates that Michael Jackson's death amounted to $55 million in additional revenue for the magazine industry in the two months following the event thanks to special issues and book-a-zines dedicated to memorializing the gloved one's life.
Many of us recoil from the theory some Christians espouse, that Jesus' death amounted to a substitution.
