Sentence examples for defendants executed from inspiring English sources

Judge McRae himself ordered six defendants executed notwithstanding jury verdicts calling for life sentences, more than any other judge in Alabama in the modern history of capital punishment.

The other three defendants executed it".

This could mean that approximately 120 of the roughly 3,000 inmates currently on death row in America might not be guilty, and at least several of the 1,320 defendants executed since 1977 were innocent.

And Ms. Gilbert would be the first Massachusetts defendant executed since 1947.

In particular, attention focused on the disproportionate number of nonwhite defendants being executed.

His top policy adviser on issues of criminal justice emphasized that there is "super due process to make sure that no innocent defendants are executed".

All or most of the sentences were soon reduced, but then some of the defendants were executed in the late nineteen-thirties, while others were released.

The other named defendants allegedly executed trades based on the information contained in that trove of documents.

In some instances stays are granted, while in others they are not and the defendants are executed, with no principled distinction to justify such a result".

This first trial lasted eight months with ultimately seven of the 24 defendants being executed.

There are only a handful of cases where there is enough evidence of innocence for lawyers to pursue after a defendant is executed.