Sentence examples for allowing the execution from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday the US supreme court removed the stay, allowing the execution to go ahead.

Does allowing the execution of such a conspiracy not reek of a conspiracy in itself?

On Wednesday the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case it could use to reverse its disgraceful 1989 decision allowing the execution of retarded people.

Dr. Lewis is most pleased by the citation in a 1991 opinion by Justice Thurgood Marshall, a dissent in the decision allowing the execution of the brain-damaged Ricky Ray Rector.

No judge wants to be responsible for allowing the execution of an innocent person, which helps explain why there tend to be an unusually high number of appeals in a capital case.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer, in a dissent joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, wrote that the government's request was modest, given that allowing the execution to proceed would, in the solicitor general's words, "cause irreparable harm" to "foreign-policy interests of the highest order" and endanger Americans traveling abroad.

Saudi sources say that King Salman, who came to the throne a year ago, signed the royal decrees allowing the executions to go ahead because of mounting public pressure to get tough.

A separate federal court ruled to stop all the executions, only to see a higher court overturn that order, allowing the executions to proceed.

Among the three jurisdictions, only Virginia allows the execution of juveniles.

Virginia law also allows the execution of people for crimes they commit as minors.

Of the 38 states that use the death penalty, 20 allow the execution of the mentally retarded.