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  • curprev 21:4021:40, 7 March 2026 Roshan talk contribs 2,967 bytes +2,967 Created page with "Many years ago, semantic drift caught an actor unfortunately unawares. After she put in a lot of work to write a book describing how homosexuals received capital punishment for centuries, it was found not days after her book was published that a sentence of 'death recorded' does not actually mean that the person was killed. {{Quote |text=It empowered the trial judge to abstain from formally pronouncing a sentence of death upon a capital convict in cases where the judge..."