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.
There she meets her first dead person, stretched out on the carpet.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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".
The collection firms then zero in on family members who they think might agree to pay some of what the dead person owed even though they have no legal obligation to do so.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
Most states have statutes on the book that consider the marriage ended once the person is declared dead, whether or not that person turns up alive.
Crews initially reported three deaths before finding another person dead in the wreckage later Wednesday.
The Toronto shooting at the Eaton Centre left one person dead and seven injured.
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.
"We will not leave the operation until the last dead body and living person is found, " said Maj.
If a person is dead, their body becomes the property of the hospital but most hospitals prefer to consult the family.
There are up to a dozen possible routes, and the direct one versus the scenic one versus the loop-de-loop versus the dead end changes from person to person.
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The government has declared a "yellow alert" in various parts of Cartago, a central province where one person was reported dead, said Roman.
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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.
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Mr Purdham was the ninth person to be shot dead by Bird, 52, who killed 12 and wounded 11 before killing himself.
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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