Many defense lawyers say the restraints require all federal indictments in death-penalty cases to include specific references to the aggravating factors meriting execution.
One section of their draft covers stoning, detailing in 28 articles the offences that merit execution, the legal standards of proof necessary, the site of punishment and other details.
However the last man, Croatia's Filip Ude, finished with the same score and despite the Briton performing a more difficult routine, he nudged Smith into third place on the podium with fewer deductions on count-back for artistic merit - execution being more highly valued than difficulty.
Whether or not he stole a box of cigars would not merit his execution.
As it was currently written, some murders merited punishments of execution while with other murders, imprisonment would suffice as a punishment.
It's sort of like a figure skating competition where you create an original routine and you are judged on level of difficulty, execution, artistic merit, and you can enter at multiple levels so that you are competing with others in a similar point in their training.
Mindful of those circumstances, the former Sunderland defender merited praise for his nerveless execution.
Even official media report about cadres gaining promotion through connections, not merit, and despite the occasional execution of corrupt officials, the government can do little about it.
We spent thirty minutes discussing the merits of football -- teamwork, discipline, execution, physicality, mental toughness, respect for opponent, urgency, perseverance -- zero conversation around the job.
This sets up the possibility that there are enough votes to hear a case on the merits, but not enough to stop the execution so that such a hearing can held.
