Sentence examples for executions for murder from inspiring English sources

It could be argued that all executions for murder, still practised in some developed democracies, is founded in eye-for-an-eye vengeance, and hence barbaric.

She is caught, sentenced to execution for murder, then spared and sentenced to exile.

In this would-be thriller, Mr. Spacey plays a death-penalty opponent facing execution for murder.

Courts may hand down sentences of amputation for robbery and public execution for murder, rape, sodomy and drug trafficking.

The novel begins with Clyde's blighted background, recounts his path to success, and culminates in his apprehension, trial, and execution for murder.

And now, in the would-be thriller "The Life of David Gale," he plays a death-penalty opponent facing execution for murder.

An article on Sunday about Johnny Paul Penry, a mentally retarded man facing execution for murder in Texas, misspelled the middle name of his victim.

Correction: November 18 , 2000 Saturday An article on Sunday about Johnny Paul Penry, a mentally retarded man facing execution for murder in Texas, misspelled the middle name of his victim.

When offered life without parole as an alternative punishment to execution for murder, Americans divide almost evenly.It is also too simple to talk about Americans as a block.

Fewer death penalty cases reach UK judges nowadays because most of the West Indian states that use the judicial committee of the privy council (JCPC) as a final court of appeal have scrapped mandatory execution for murder.

Today, Mr. Tan is dead, beaten to death by Ms. Li with the barrel of his air gun during an argument in November 2010, and Mr. Li is trying to save his sister's life as she sits in a jail in Sichuan Province awaiting execution for murder.