Sentence examples for execution as a punishment from inspiring English sources

Kennedy cast the critical vote in two important opinions: one made executing juvenile offenders illegal and another ruled the Eighth Amendment doesn't allow execution as a punishment for raping a child if the rape didn't, and wasn't meant to, cause the child's death.

The ruling comes as states around the country are re-evaluating execution as a means of punishment.

The inmates' plea may also seem myopically focussed on one means of death when it is the end — execution as a form of punishment — that should be judged.

As executions becomes less common and sentences for executions decline — dropping to about 100 a year from three times that in the 1990s — the focus on execution as a means of punishment and a marker of the nation's cultural and political divide becomes sharper, legal analysts said.

Days earlier, he warned reporters they are not excused from execution as a form of punishment for corrupt news coverage.

Romans saw it as a punishment worse than execution: the fate of being forgotten.

As it was currently written, some murders merited punishments of execution while with other murders, imprisonment would suffice as a punishment.

Arguably, the nation most well known to have implemented this type of execution was the British Empire, in its role as paramount power in India, and in particular as a punishment for native soldiers found guilty of mutiny or desertion.

Over the course of the last century, while blotched executions have fueled movement from one execution method to another, they have not posed a serious challenge to the continuing viability of death as a punishment.

He tells him that he has decided against execution as punishment for the lovers.

In 1996 the Taliban seized Kabul and instituted a severe interpretation of Islamic law that, for example, forbade female education and prescribed the severing of hands, or even execution, as punishment for petty crimes.