The Daily Populous

Thursday March 22nd, 2018 morning edition

Federal prosecutors told to seek death penalty in drug cases
Authored by reuters.com
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed federal prosecutors on Wednesday to seek the death penalty in drug-related cases whenever it is “appropriate,” saying the Justice Department must boost efforts to counter America’s epidemic of opioid abuse.

The call for greater use of the death penalty in federal drug cases has already sparked a backlash from criminal justice reform groups.

While the death penalty is used in the United States, it is generally handed down in federal cases only in connection with the most heinous crimes.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 61 federal prisoners currently sit on death row.

Attorneys offices, because death penalty cases are more complex and take longer to move through the court system.

“Death penalty cases are extremely difficult and cumbersome and complicated,” one former federal prosecutor told Reuters when Trump first announced the plan.

Under U.S. law, there are only four limited circumstances in which the death penalty can be sought in federal drug cases. »

TIL that Milton Hershey kept his employees working during the Great Depression by having them construct buildings in Hershey, PA including a school, arena and hotel. When a steam shovel was brought in for construction, Hershey told his foreman to get rid of the shovel and hire 40 men instead.
Authored by entrepreneur.com
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Even so, Hershey's path to sweet success was fraught with obstacles and setbacks that would have crushed lesser men.

Hershey began his candy-making career at age 15 when he was apprenticed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, confectioner Joseph H. Royer.

Hershey blossomed under Royer's tutelage, acquiring many of the skills and tools he would later use to build his own empire. »

Stephen Hawking's ashes to be placed beside Newton and Darwin
Authored by edition.cnn.com

(CNN) The ashes of world famous physicist Steven Hawking will be interred in London's Westminster Abbey near the graves of ground-breaking scientists Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.

Isaac Newton was buried at the Abbey following his death in 1727, as was naturalist Charles Darwin a century and a half later in 1882.

Queen Elizabeth II lays a wreath on the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton in London, on March 8, 2010. »

Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks the best cities to buy scrunchies
Authored by foxnews.com
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While fashionistas everywhere champion the return of the scrunchie, one loyal fan argues that they never went out of style: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

“I have been wearing scrunchies for years,” the 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice told the Wall Street Journal on March 19.

“My scrunchie collection is not as large as my collar and glove collections, but scrunchies are catching up,” Justice Ginsburg said. »

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