Sentence examples for lethal sentences from inspiring English sources
Once Pierrepoint travels to Germany as the designated executioner of guilty Nazis, the movie confronts you with the obvious parallels between this anonymous functionary carrying out lethal sentences handed down by others, and the Nazi defense that in sending millions to their deaths, they were merely following orders.
The Times responded by reprinting the entire offending editorial, with its lethal final sentence: "In his obtuse behavior as a public official in Maryland as well as in his egregious comments in this campaign, Mr. Agnew has demonstrated that he is not fit to stand one step away from the Presidency".
Correction: A previous version of this story referred ambiguously to "non-lethal death sentences".
The man, Stephen LaValle, 37, who was convicted in the 1997 rape and murder of a Medford jogger, was one of four men awaiting lethal injection whose sentences were overturned by the June 24 ruling of the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.
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Under sharia law in some north Nigerian states, homosexual people can be sentenced to death by stoning or lethal injection, though that sentence has never been enforced.
Firing squads will give way to lethal injection for defendants sentenced to death.
The law also substituted lethal injection for those sentenced to death for crimes committed after May 1, 2000, but there have been no capital convictions since that date.
The military justice system, which does not govern the Guantánamo cases, provides for execution by lethal injection in death sentence convictions.
He was executed by lethal injection, enacting a sentence passed by jurors in Denver, Colorado in June 1997 for the murder of 168 people.
