Sentence examples for penalty acts from inspiring English sources

If the death penalty acts as a deterrent, this execution, if not all executions, should be televised nationally to promote such deterrence.

As to the perpetrators of this heinous crime, the story concludes: "Whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent remains questionable, although studies show that the odds of criminals committing another crime drops by almost half after their execution".

"I hope this penalty acts as a reminder to all organisations across Scotland and the rest of the UK to ensure that the personal information they handle is kept secure".

For example: "Some people argue that the death penalty acts as a deterrent to crime.

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.