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Henning: No ‘death penalty’ for MSU, expert predicts

When questions were put to a man about Michigan State, and governance, Keith Molin’s response was rapid and comprehensive. How serious, he was asked, might be sanctions in the aftermath of Larry Nassar’s crimes?

“I can give you a definitive answer to one of those questions,” Molin said this week during a nearly two-hour interview.

“There will be no death penalty. First of all, the NCAA can only issue a death penalty if there’s a second major violation of rules and the university has already been punished for the first one. There has to be a repeat.