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The Peterson jury has reached a verdict--they'll announce it at 4:00 pm.

Personally, I think the guy's guilty--but I also think he'll get off. The white O.J. OTOH, the fact that they had to start deliberations again today, and they reached one so quickly gives hope--quick verdicts I believe usually indicate a guilty verdict.

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It's been used 10 times since 1976, but not in the past two years. So far, that's the best I can do.

Given the circumstances, I wouldn't be surprised if they do sentence him to death.

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Damn, that is one interesting chart. I liked the Texas/Virginia comparison to all the other states. We Virginians take a certain grim pride in that. Oklahoma's quite a little execution factory as well.

But I thought Maryland had issued a moratorium on the death penalty? Yet there was one listed for this year.

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Even more interesting to me is Ohio: 15 since 1976, but 7 of them were this year. Crank up the juice, boys, it's time to get busy!

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Break out the flip-flops, it's getting hot!

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The ten:

January 29, 2002- Stephen Wayne Anderson
March 27, 2001- Robert Lee Massie
March 15, 2000- Darrell Young Elk Rich
May 4, 1999- Manual Babbit
Febuary 9, 1999- Jaturun Siripongs
July 14, 1998- Thomas Martin Thompson
May 3, 1996- Keith (Danny) Williams
February 23, 1996- Willliam Bonin
August 24, 1993- David Mason
April 21, 1992- Robert Alton Harris

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Of those, the names Stephen Wayne Anderson, Robert Lee Massie, David Mason and Robert Alton Harris are all familiar to me.

Why is it that so many murderers seem to be known by all three names?

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I've wondered that many times myself. James Earl Ray, John Wayne Gacy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman--offhand, I can only think of Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer who don't follow this rule.

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Perhaps it's done to avoid tarnishing the names of the thousands of Stephen Andersons or Robert Harrises who lead normal, law-abiding lives. Most ordinary people don't often use their middle names.

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Yes, middle names are more unique identifiers than just first and last names. I think it also has a lot to do with the name that the prosecution uses to charge the criminal, ie the name on the indictment.