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post- Furman hiatus

Greek translation: (προσωρινή) ατόνηση/παύση ισχύος της θανατικής ποινής στην μετά την υπόθεση Φέρμαν εποχή

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English term or phrase:post- Furman hiatus
Greek translation:(προσωρινή) ατόνηση/παύση ισχύος της θανατικής ποινής στην μετά την υπόθεση Φέρμαν εποχή
Entered by: Vicky Papaprodromou

16:30 Jan 13, 2005
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Law/Patents - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / capital punishment/ ethics/law
English term or phrase: post- Furman hiatus
"Prohibitions on televising executions have on several occasions ijn recent years been bubject to, and survived, constitutional challenges. the first and most important of these cases, Garrett v. Estelle, arose when a television reporter in Texas sought permission to film the first execution in that state after the post-Furman hiatus in capital punishment. Claiming a violation of the First Amendment, he challenged the refusal of the State department of Corrections to allow him to do so." The execution of capital punishment had stoped in the U.S. for several years , with the last execution beeing that of Furman if I am not mistaken, in 1973.
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Local time: 11:30
(προσωρινή) ατόνηση/παύση ισχύος της θανατικής ποινής στην μετά την υπόθεση Φέρμαν εποχή
Explanation:
Ιt was the old boy's last big chance to strike a blow for tradition. Shortly thereafter, Harlan retired and died. If he had lived even another year he would have been shocked to see the dazzling speed with which the Supreme Court can change its mind. It happened with Furman v. Georgia. The nine separate opinions totaled 50,000 words, the most voluminous dialogue in Court history. Stanford University law professor Robert Weisberg likened it to "a badly orchestrated opera, with nine characters taking turns to offer their own arias."
The case dealt with appeals from three black men who had been sentenced to death, one for murder, the other two for raping white women. William Furman was the murderer. At trial he gave this description of how he accidentally shot his white victim through a door: "They got me charged with murder and I admit, I admit going to these folks' home and they did caught me in there and I was coming back out, backing up and there was a wire down there on the floor. I was coming out backwards and fell back and I didn't intend to kill nobody. I didn't know they was behind the door. The gun went off and I didn't know nothing about no murder until they arrested me, and when the gun went off I was down on the floor and I got up and ran. That's all to it." As a matter of fact, the Georgia Supreme Court accepted Furman's explanation, but it nevertheless upheld the death sentence. (Let us pause to point out the obvious: This was, as Furman's attorney said, "a regular garden-variety burglary murder." A white defendant would have got maybe twenty years.)

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010108&c=10&s=sherril...

hiatus // n. (pl. hiatuses)
1 a break or gap, esp. in a series, account, or chain of proof.
2 Prosody & Gram. a break between two vowels coming together but not in the same syllable, as in though oft the ear.
hiatal adj.
[Latin, = gaping, from hiare ‘gape’]
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4 +4(προσωρινή) κατάργη&
Maria Karra
3 +2(προσωρινή) ατόνηση/παύση ισχύος της θανατικής ποινής στην μετά την υπόθεση Φέρμαν εποχή
Vicky Papaprodromou


  

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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
post- furman hiatus
(προσωρινή) κατάργη&


Explanation:
Σχετικά με τον Φέρμαν:
In 1972, the High Court in Furman vs. Georgia invalidated the death penalty, finding it discriminatory. In the years that followed, thirty-eight states and the federal government rewrote their respective sentencing statutes. The death penalty was not gone for long. Currently, more than three out of four states have the ability to execute convicted murders.

Thirty years after the Furman decision, the state of Illinois imposed a moratorium on the death penalty. Illinois has created the Ryan Commission on Capital Punishment. The committee's eighty-five suggested reforms have just become public. This month, Maryland joined Illinois in imposing a moratorium on the death penalty.

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(προσωρινή) κατάργηση της θανατικής καταδίκης μετά την υπόθεση Furman

To "διακοπή" δεν κολλάει στο συγκείμενο. Δε μου'ρχεται καμιά καλύτερη ιδέα.

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Note added at 16 mins (2005-01-13 16:47:31 GMT)
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ή [...] την πρώτη εκτέλεση από τότε που η θανατική ποινή καταργήθηκε εξαιτίας της υπόθεσης Furman.

Maria Karra
United States
Local time: 04:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GreekGreek
PRO pts in category: 12

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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
post- Furman hiatus in capital punishment
(προσωρινή) ατόνηση/παύση ισχύος της θανατικής ποινής στην μετά την υπόθεση Φέρμαν εποχή


Explanation:
Ιt was the old boy's last big chance to strike a blow for tradition. Shortly thereafter, Harlan retired and died. If he had lived even another year he would have been shocked to see the dazzling speed with which the Supreme Court can change its mind. It happened with Furman v. Georgia. The nine separate opinions totaled 50,000 words, the most voluminous dialogue in Court history. Stanford University law professor Robert Weisberg likened it to "a badly orchestrated opera, with nine characters taking turns to offer their own arias."
The case dealt with appeals from three black men who had been sentenced to death, one for murder, the other two for raping white women. William Furman was the murderer. At trial he gave this description of how he accidentally shot his white victim through a door: "They got me charged with murder and I admit, I admit going to these folks' home and they did caught me in there and I was coming back out, backing up and there was a wire down there on the floor. I was coming out backwards and fell back and I didn't intend to kill nobody. I didn't know they was behind the door. The gun went off and I didn't know nothing about no murder until they arrested me, and when the gun went off I was down on the floor and I got up and ran. That's all to it." As a matter of fact, the Georgia Supreme Court accepted Furman's explanation, but it nevertheless upheld the death sentence. (Let us pause to point out the obvious: This was, as Furman's attorney said, "a regular garden-variety burglary murder." A white defendant would have got maybe twenty years.)

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010108&c=10&s=sherril...

hiatus // n. (pl. hiatuses)
1 a break or gap, esp. in a series, account, or chain of proof.
2 Prosody & Gram. a break between two vowels coming together but not in the same syllable, as in though oft the ear.
hiatal adj.
[Latin, = gaping, from hiare ‘gape’]
ΟΧFORD CONCISE DICTIONARY




Vicky Papaprodromou
Greece
Local time: 11:30
Native speaker of: Native in GreekGreek
PRO pts in category: 70

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  -> Nάσαι καλά, Μίνα. Ευχαριστώ!
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