Naeem Davis was charged with murder in early December after allegedly pushing a passenger to his death in the Times Square subway station at the beginning of December.

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The industry may feel it has come through a near-death experience in better shape than it could have hoped at the beginning of the year.

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The settlement does not cover lawsuits seeking compensation for injury and death, which are being taken to trial beginning next month in the court of James V.

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By the beginning of the 1860s the rate of death in the United States had begun to decline, although dramatic improvements in longevity would not appear until late in the century.

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Altogether, there have been more than 240 drone attacks in Pakistan since the beginning of 2009, with a death toll of more than 1, 300.

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But the state was forced to review its death penalty laws beginning in 1972, when a Supreme Court decision required greater consistency in its application.

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His death at Bosworth - the last English king to be killed in battle - ushered in the Tudor dynasty beginning with Henry VII.

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Going further, he believes the ID card scheme in its current form could sound the death knell for government services online at a time when they are just beginning to be adopted by people.

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"I just loved doing it from the very beginning, " Stapleton told CNN in 2001, shortly after O'Connor's death.

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