Sentence examples for executed a person from inspiring English sources
He also noted that Georgia hadn't executed a person who didn't actually carry out a killing since the supreme court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
He noted that Owen will become eligible for parole in 2022, saying that Georgia had not executed a person who had not physically killed someone since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
"Every state that has executed a person with mental retardation had the same protections in their laws," said James Ellis, a past president of the American Association on Mental Retardation and a professor at the University of New Mexico law school.
Pakistan has never executed a person for blasphemy, although alleged blasphemers have been killed by angry mobs.
There is no way to have the one without the other, and arguing over the relative comfort of the method of execution employed, acting as if in executing a person one is doing no harm to his body (even going so far as to swab the prisoner's arm with rubbing alcohol before injecting the chemical solution that will kill him moments later) is nothing but a pseudohumanitarian farce.
Some anti-abortion advocates draw little distinction between killing a fetus and executing a person.
In 2002, the US Supreme Court had ruled that it would be cruel and unusual punishment to execute a person with such an impairment.
That is because the condemned inmate Oliver David Cruz is mentally retarded, and it demeans the nation's judicial system to execute a person so mentally deficient.
Saudi Arabia, a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is obliged not to execute a person convicted of a crime when he or she was a minor.
The court will hear arguments today over a 2003 Missouri Supreme Court decision that said executing a person who had committed a murder when he was 17 would violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
In 1988, in a 5-to-4 decision overturning an Oklahoma statute, four justices agreed that executing a person who was 15 years old at the time a crime was committed would be unconstitutional; a fifth justice concurred on narrower grounds.
