Sentence examples for penalty act from inspiring English sources

On 9 November 1965 the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act was given the royal assent.

"They can only be cured by Congress passing a new death penalty act".

A 1996 federal law, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, imposes strict limits on successive federal habeas corpus petitions.

Subsequently, Clinton's Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enabled a drastic escalation in the use of the death penalty.

The law that generates much of the judges' ire is the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

This bill eventually morphed into the broader Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which President Clinton signed shortly after the first anniversary of the bombing.

Convicted under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Hammonds were subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of five years.

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, enacted in 1996, made it a crime to provide "material support" to terrorist organizations.

In the Anti terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which restricted many aspects of habeas corpus, Congress made the "abuse of the writ" obstacle even higher.

When Congress and President Clinton enacted the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act in 1996, they largely silenced the federal courts and put an end to the dialogue.

Two years earlier, passage of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act had made it a crime to provide "material support" to groups the State Department had designated as "foreign terrorist organizations".