Sentence examples for imposition of death from inspiring English sources

But another juror circled 2 -- and it only takes a single juror's vote to block imposition of death.

Since colonial times into recent decades, racial prejudice has been a huge factor in the imposition of death sentences in the state.

With the right procedures, he wrote, it is possible to ensure "evenhanded, rational and consistent imposition of death sentences under law".

"This is a situation," Mr. Savitt said, "where we have a potential for a state-sponsored imposition of death, and it's just a very sad day".

The reality is that the imposition of death taxation is overwhelmingly recognized as appropriate in democratic countries throughout the world, including every country in the European Union.

The new justice's opinion described the crime in vivid detail before concluding that Mr. Jurek's death sentence was constitutional because "Texas has provided a means to promote the evenhanded, rational and consistent imposition of death sentences under law".

"The imposition of the death penalty, particularly the provision for the mandatory death sentence for offenses such as drug trafficking, violates the right to life," the London-based monitoring group said in a recent report.

The Supreme Court held that the death sentences imposed in these three cases violated the Constitution because they provided too much discretion in meting out death sentences; it further stipulated that the imposition of the death penalty in general had been "arbitrary" and "capricious" and thus invalidated capital punishment until states could redress this.

He co-sponsored "Innocence Protection Act of 2001" (H.R. 912, S.486) to "reduce the risk that innocent persons may be executed [by examining DNA evidence more thoroughly]" and the "National Death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2001 H.R.103838, S.233) to limit capital punishment until the National Commission on the Death Penalty reviewed the "fairness of the imposition of the death penalty".

Last week's report from the Justice Department confirming stark racial and geographic disparities in the imposition of federal death sentences has underscored the arbitrariness of the nation's death penalty system.

While reaffirming his support for the death penalty, Mr. Clinton lamented the glaring inequities in the imposition of federal death sentences identified in a Justice Department study in September.