Sentence examples for executions imposed from inspiring English sources

The State Senate on Tuesday sent the bill to the Democratic governor, who supports capital punishment but has upheld an 11-year moratorium on executions imposed by a predecessor after a spate of wrongful convictions.

She noted a recent positive change on this issue stemming from international pressure on China's "punishment to death" sentence, stating that now the Chinese government follows clear procedures to officially record trials in the law book, with only the High Court, upon review of the Supreme Court, holding the power to deliver a death sentence, which has reduced the number of executions imposed.

The sentence of execution imposed by Judge Jon C. Blue of State Superior Court here was mandated by the jury's death-penalty verdict on Nov. 8.

The moratorium on executions was imposed in 1996 and was set to expire in January.

The country has not outlawed executions but has imposed a moratorium against them; the last state execution appears to have been for a coup d'état, the very crime for which he is charged.

Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia, a Democrat, announced within hours of the ruling that he was lifting a moratorium on executions he had imposed, and other states were expected to follow.

It shocked the country and led the government to lift a moratorium on executions that was imposed in 2008.

That method of execution was also imposed in France and Germany from the 13th to the 16th century for "coining" or "clipping" (the scraping of fragments from coins that were then melted and cast into new coins).

The optimization is driven by the minimization of required hardware area, the imposed execution time and the necessary power consumption of the final implementation, and yet avoiding hot spots.

The optimization processes of assignment and mapping are both driven by the minimization of the required silicon area and imposed execution time of the application, considering that the decision maker's preference is a pre-specified value of the overall power consumption of the implementation.

The supreme court told judges not to hand out death sentences when evidence is lacking — not a self-evident point after a series of reports about executions or life sentences imposed on defendants later proved to be innocent.