Sentence examples for merits death from inspiring English sources

For deontological proponents of the death penalty, murderers can be executed because the nature of their crime merits death.

In the district capital, Mingora, decapitated corpses were dangled from lampposts with notices pinned to them stating the "un-Islamic" action that merited death.

According to Al Qaeda's extreme interpretation of what made an enemy, his was a crime that merited death, for the goods he ferried to Baghdad meant that the American troops, or the puppet government they defended, would be equipped with toilet paper, or mineral water, or gasoline.

To the Romans, any one of these charges was enough to merit death by crucifixion.

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The list of apostates meriting death included the Shiite, Sufis and other Muslim denominations, whom Abd al-Wahhab did not consider to be Muslim at all.

Those rulings required a series of principled standards to separate murderers that may merit death sentences from murderers who would be punished by imprisonment.

"The murder of a police officer is an attack on society at large and merits the death penalty," he said in a statement.

Let's be clear: If any crime merits the death penalty, it's this one.

Being gay still merits the death penalty in a dozen or so countries, and Saudi scholars debate whether it's more Islamic to stone or behead homosexuals.

There is nothing the least bit illegal about any of this; the fact that it merits a death sentence from a rogue intelligence agency, the corralling of which is on no one's agenda, bespeaks a post-9/11 value hemorrhage in our society that disturbs me to the core.