Before Tuesday's election, death-penalty proponents in the Assembly believed they had the 100 votes needed to override Mr. Cuomo's annual veto of the measure.
The last time they signed a cease-fire and agreed to participate in elections, death squads of the paramilitary right, often paid by large landowners and assisted by the military, assassinated 3,000 activists of the left's Patriotic Union party, including elected officials, two senators and two presidential candidates.
The model measured the time from last election until death (or end of the study period) for all candidates, adjusting for life expectancy at the time of election.
While The Times usually saved its displays for extraordinary events -- war and peace, elections, deaths of popes and presidents, revolutions and historic scientific exploits -- there were occasional lapses in judgment, some almost incredible.
10 Secondly, we plotted Kaplan-Meier survival curves for elected leaders and runner-up candidates from year of last election until death.
Yet in this year's election, the death penalty is barely mentioned or discussed.
The year 1999 proved to be a significant one for Ukraine, with a divisive presidential election, the death of a charismatic opposition leader, and the flight abroad of a former prime minister.
When Mr. Tsvangirai fled Zimbabwe in the middle of the night on April 8, just 10 days after the general election, citing death threats, he crossed into Botswana and was granted refuge.
Mousavi arrived about 4 pm local time and was welcomed by a group of people shouting "Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein" — the rallying cry in the weeks following the election — or "Death to the dictator".
