Sentence examples for death competency from inspiring English sources

In current cancer treatment protocols, the 'cell death competency' of tumours is always undetermined and for many inaccessible cancers this may never change.

"I think the one thing that happened in 2015 that most clearly raised the question about whether you could trust the states to carry out the death penalty competency was Oklahoma's botched executions," Mr Dunham said.

In this second scenario, the missing charts might be related to certain causes of death that call into question the competency, staffing and medical resources available within the facility.

The strange events increased pressure on the Justice Department to justify a rigorous and expensive trial in an effort to obtain the death penalty for a defendant whose mental competency is in question.

Court records show Magallanes had a pending mental competency hearing Aug. 15 in a death penalty cases involving the separate slayings of homeless men on Oct. 27 and Jan . 25

The competency of lawyers is, of course, most critical in death penalty cases.

The drive to establish competency criteria comes in the wake of publicity about death penalty trials during which defense attorneys fell asleep or were intoxicated.

It is a special competency trial that began here last Monday, where a 12-member jury will decide whether Mr. Kelly has become too incompetent during his years on death row to be put to death.

Since 1977, more than 100 inmates have "volunteered" for death according to John H. Blume, author of Killing the Willing: "Volunteers," Suicide and Competency.

But in a decision issued in January, the court ruled that no such constitutional right exists and that inmates may not use the competency of their habeas lawyer as grounds to attack a conviction or death sentence.

The United States Supreme Court gave a last minute reprieve to a Texas death row inmate with chronic paranoid schizophrenia after his lawyers raised questions about his competency to be executed.