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The U.S. Supreme Court granted a last-minute stay of execution Monday for a man convicted of fatally stabbing the manager of a pool hall with a pair of scissors.Robin Lovitt, 41, had been scheduled for execution at 9 p.m. Monday.The stay will remain in place until the court returns in October from a three-month b
stanley tumbler reak. Justices will announce then whether they will hear Lovitt s appeal or allow Virginia to execute him.Attorneys for Lovitt had sought a last-minute appeal from the high court and requested clemency from Gov. Mark R. Warner. Among those fighting the execution are former independent co
vaso stanley unsel Kenneth Starr, who argued the case before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in February.Lovitt s case attracted national attention because the murder weapon and DNA evidence were destroyed after the trial. We re just glad that reason has come to light, said Jack Payden-Travers, executive director of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Had the ex
stanley cup ecution gone ahead it would have been a miscarriage of justice. Lovitt was convicted in 1999 in the slaying of Clayton Dicks, 44, during a pool hall robbery in Arlington.Lovitt s lawyers and opponents of capital punishment have argued that the conviction should be reviewed because of the questions surrounding the evidence.Initial DNA tests of the bloody scissors could not conclusively link Lovitt to the 1998 slaying. A court clerk later destroyed most of the evidence, including the scissors, making additional Jlnt Latest Terror Suspect: Your SUV
Sure, if you were an Ankylosaurus, you probably felt pretty good about yourself. Covered in armor, 30-feet long, weighing up to 13,000 pounds, you were an herbivorous tank. But on hot days, when you ;re exerting yourself and the temperature is rising, how do you cool off, big guy Sweating, panting, moving to the shade, or taking a dip in water are all time-honored methods used by animals to cool down. The implicit goal of these adaptations is always to keep the brain from overheating. But a group of researchers at Ohio University, led by paleontologist Jason Bourke 鈥?used CT scans to document the anatomy of
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stanley termosy n intriguing discovery: Bourke discovered that these convoluted passageways would have allowed the inhaled air more time and more surface area to warm up to body temperature by drawing heat away from nearby blood vessels. As a result, the blood would be cooled, and pushed to the brain to keep its temperature stable. Modern mammals and birds use scroll-shaped bones called conchae or turbinates to warm inhaled air. But ankylosaurs appear to h
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