Sentence examples for capital prosecution from inspiring English sources

Away from the capital, prosecution of the war flagged.

There are horribly heinous rapes and murders all the time that escape capital prosecution.

My first direct encounter with a capital prosecution came in 1991.

The Justice Department has been sketchy in explaining the standards Mr. Ashcroft uses when he insists on a capital prosecution.

If successful, the prosecution will establish a chilling precedent: national security leaks may subject the leakers to a capital prosecution or at least life imprisonment.

Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina, told NBC News on Friday that she wanted Roof to face a capital prosecution.

In 16 of the last 17 federal capital prosecutions, Judge Wolf wrote, juries rejected the death penalty.

Last week, legislators passed a measure calling for a bipartisan commission to examine the cost, fairness and effects of capital prosecutions.

"It's a dangerous game the Department of Justice is playing here," he said, adding that the failed capital prosecutions were a poor use of resources and damaged prosecutors' credibility.

Kenneth McClintock, a Puerto Rican senator and a member of the opposition New Progressive Party, said that accepting federal capital prosecutions was a price of association with the mainland.

"There is a possibility that the terrorism law might open the door to all sorts of capital prosecutions we did not intend," said Mr. Almand, a supporter of Virginia's capital punishment laws.