Sentence examples for deserving of execution from inspiring English sources

In the current phase of Mr. Moussaoui's sentencing trial, the prosecution is presenting evidence and testimony meant to show that the heinous nature of the crimes of Sept. 11 makes him deserving of execution.

Did their crimes make them more deserving of execution than all the others?

Defense lawyers hope to show that Mr. Moussaoui was a terrorist hanger-on whose mental instability makes him deserving of life in prison, not execution.

In part, that is surely because Russians truly see Chechnya's rebels, with a long list of kidnappings and grisly executions to their credit, as entirely deserving of extermination.

But by delivering them in exaggerated styles more notable for their affectations than for their execution, it in effect renders its source material as a punch line, something not deserving of respect.

"They do not deserve the glory of execution".

Maintaining that he was sentenced to death on the basis of junk science, Mr. Harris says he deserves a stay of execution and a resentencing hearing at which evidence of how the future turned out can be presented.

More than a third of the time that Illinois imposed a capital sentence, it seemed, the defendants were either not guilty or not deserving execution.

It is a raw test, not only of whether these men deserve execution, but also of public and political sentiment on capital punishment itself.

Americans should be urged to support penal reform not in spite of their belief that some murderers deserve execution, in other words, but because of it — because both are attempts to ensure that accused criminals receive their just deserts.

Prosecutors argue Tsarnaev, 19 years old at the time of the bombing, deserves execution, saying his attack was aimed at punishing the country he moved to a decade before the bombing, an act that he described as taking revenge for U.S. military campaigns in Muslim-dominated countries.