Sentence examples for executions to proceed from inspiring English sources

All outstanding death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment.In 1976, after that short lull, the court allowed executions to proceed again under redrafted state statutes.

"Judge Fogel now has a clear directive from the high court that unless the new California protocol fails this 'sure or very likely' standard, he should allow executions to proceed," Mr. Scheidegger wrote.

In a 1995 speech on what he called "the death penalty dialogue between law and social science," Professor Baldus considered what had led the Supreme Court to allow executions to proceed in the face of his study.

(Missouri, the "show me" state has creatively come up with a different product to enable executions to proceed).

A separate federal court ruled to stop all the executions, only to see a higher court overturn that order, allowing the executions to proceed.

But by a vote of 5-to-4, the justices permitted the Taylor execution to proceed.

Only a simple majority of board members is required to allow an execution to proceed.

The justices allowed one execution to proceed and granted stays in two others.

Those developments had apparently quelled Judge Fogel's worries enough to allow Mr. Brown's execution to proceed.

In court proceedings last week, an Ohio state prosecutor said bluntly: "You're not entitled to a pain-free execution," and a judge allowed the execution to proceed.

In a 5-to-4 vote, the court's conservative majority allowed the execution to proceed based on a stark misrepresentation.