Sentence examples for Unanimous sentencing from inspiring English sources

The decision came as a surprise because late this morning jurors told the court they were unable to reach a unanimous sentencing verdict and would like further guidance.

As for almost the whole trial, Tsarnaev's face registered little or no emotion as the jury handed down their unanimous sentence of death.

On to the United States Supreme Court Husted went, and in one unanimous sentence they declined him.

"It is an injustice because I think the court should have found it to be retroactive to everybody on death row who got a less than unanimous sentence," said Florida International University law professor Stephen Harper.

For each victim, a separate life sentence was issued, with the judge reading a note explaining that the jury hadn't reached a unanimous final sentencing verdict, meaning life in prison would be imposed.

Ten days after Election Day, the court's unanimous two-sentence ruling was the most dramatic legal development yet in the battle between Mr. Bush and Vice President Al Gore.

Unanimous jury sentences Dylann Roof to death after he showed no remorse for mass murder in South Carolina church.

A unanimous jury sentenced Dylann Roof to death for killing nine black churchgoers as they attended Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015.

Non-unanimous death sentencing decisions were particularly pronounced in Alabama: A 2015 study from the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School found that 26 out of 34 of the state's death sentences in the past five years were decided by split juries.

But it added: "Those who had served several prison sentences were unanimous that this prison sentence had not been a shock.

The jury will have to reach unanimous verdicts to sentence Mr. al-'Owhali and Mr. Mohamed to death, but the decisions will be reached at separate sentencing trials.