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That law authorizes death sentences for those who order killings to intimidate communities or influence governments, whether or not they kill anyone themselves.
Going back to 1988, the attorney general has authorized the death penalty against 199 defendants, according to the death penalty project.
In the 682 cases she reviewed in which the defendant was white, she authorized the death penalty 38percentt of the time; when the defendant was black, she authorized the death penalty 25percentt of the time.
In one of them, Ms. Reno had authorized the death penalty prosecution.
The lawyers did not make the trip, and Ms. Reno eventually authorized the death penalty.
In 1985, Congress enacted Article 106(a) of the UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 906a which authorized the death penalty for espionage.
"Both political branches have recently and affirmatively authorized the death penalty for child rape," the petition said.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, the Virginia legislature hastily passed a law that authorized the death penalty for acts of terrorism.
The Council noted that Jamaican law authorized the death penalty and that the United Nations Committee on Human Rights has written that capital punishment is not per se unlawful under the [Human Rights] Covenant. Id., at 26, 4 All E. R., at 780.
