The punishment principle asserts that the state should not punish a dead person or his estate.
Time Warner's stock chart is like the flatline EKG of a dead person for the last three years.
In her petition, Pinki Virani said that Ms Shanbaug had been in a "persistent vegetative state" for 37 years and was "virtually a dead person".
The UK has also reopened some historic cases involving dead people, where there are suspected miscarriages of justice - but that did not mean putting a dead person on trial.
Prof Mike Redmayne, a criminal law expert at the London School of Economics (LSE), told BBC News that "trying a dead person would make as much sense as trying a horse".
In a breakthrough development in 2000, scientists in Edmonton, Alberta devised a way to transfer cell clusters called islets from the pancreas of a dead person to that of a diabetic such that the islets still produce insulin.
If you have a funeral to attend, you need to have Friday off and you are deemed to have a funeral when the dead person is a parent, a sibling, a child, a spouse or partner, an in-law, a grand-parent, a cousin, an aunt, an uncle, a friend, a classmate, a nephew, a niece, a boss, someone you go to church with, a workmate, a neighbour and of course, a president.
If a person is dead, their body becomes the property of the hospital but most hospitals prefer to consult the family.
The cut-off point for resuscitation - when a person is pronounced dead - is when all eight have been checked and there are still no signs of life.
He says often people only say good things about a person when they are dead, in eulogies.
BBC: Margaret Thatcher and the taboo of speaking ill of the dead
She happened to have been at a book signing at the largest black bookstore in L.A. when the now-dead person - who wasn't then - James Simpson Lee Hastings Jr.
The government has declared a "yellow alert" in various parts of Cartago, a central province where one person was reported dead, said Roman.
Funeral directors told Australian media that the guidelines were insensitive to the needs of grieving relatives who wanted to celebrate the life of the deceased with a service including photographs, videos and the dead person's favourite music.
BBC: Catholic Church in Australia bans pop music at funerals
They all started off with meeting a nice, polite gentleman and finished off - as I nearly did, twice - dead, because they believed he was a nice person until their time came to be his prisoner.
Boston (CNN) -- A monster blizzard has left at least one person dead and hundreds of thousands of New Englanders in the dark and in the cold Friday night, thanks to a storm that's already delivered whipping winds and more than a foot of snow in some parts, with prospects of even double that by the time it's done.
And since the destructive rampage of Anders Behring Breivik in Norway that left nearly 80 people dead, it is no longer assumed that such a person may be capable of doing only limited harm.
Researchers are trying to determine if the virus will be a "dead end" infection which can spread only from animal to person, like rabies, or will be able to spread from one person to another like HIV after it made the jump from primates.
As well as our re-evaluation of long dead heroes like Shackleton and Scott by modern standards, a different category of person is now feted.
Moreover, the wrists were crossed at the skeleton's waist, almost as if the dead person's hands had been tied when he was tossed into a hastily dug grave.
But Bertram isn't a people person, not when they're alive and not when they're dead.
The guidelines, sent to more than 200 parishes in the Melbourne area, acknowledge that the wishes of the dead person as well as of family and friends should be taken into account when planning a funeral.
BBC: Catholic Church in Australia bans pop music at funerals
Post script to this article: the missing crew person, a woman, was recovered in an unresponsive condition near the scene and later pronounced dead.
However, he said that to carry out the procedure on a wide scale would present logistical problems, not least that work would have to be started on the dead person's body before permission to use the organs had been sought from relatives.
The movie Roger Ebert calls "a first-rate thriller" tells the tale of a fateful train trip, with strangers offering to "exchange" murders, each killing the person the other wants dead.
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