Sentence examples for penalty candidate from inspiring English sources

Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, who came into office in 2010 as a pro-death penalty candidate, stayed Dunlap's execution in 2013.

It's no accident that Mr. Dukakis was the last anti-death-penalty candidate nominated by a major party for national office.

Diann Rust-Tierney, director of the capital punishment project for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a telephone interview later that Mr. Gore's comments represented "a higher level of thought and discussion around this issue" than pro-death-penalty candidates have exhibited in the past.

Whether this gap in female representation can be explained by a gender penalty female candidates face as the result of discrimination on the part of voters or campaign donors remains uncertain.

Unlike the full members of the European Union, which have banned the death penalty, Turkey, a candidate for membership, has not.

Justice Alito, writing for the majority, said the law imposed "an unprecedented penalty on any candidate who robustly exercises" free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.

But Justice Alito wrote that the legislative response was unconstitutional because it "imposes an unprecedented penalty on any candidate who robustly exercises" free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.

When it comes to gun control and the death penalty the Democratic candidate for governor, Mark Warner, differs 180 degrees with his ticket mates, Mayor Timothy M. Kaine of Richmond, who is running for lieutenant governor, and Delegate A. Donald McEachin of Henrico County, who is running for attorney general.

But rather than dwell on their differences on issues like abortion rights and the death penalty, the three candidates spent most of the night trying to define themselves as the kind of centrist who can appeal to New Jersey's moderate voters and defeat someone as tenacious and well-financed as Mr. Torricelli.

We report further practical considerations in Additional file 1. Figure 5 a depicts trade-off between the model fit and regularization penalty for the candidates in the biomass batch growth (BBG) case study.

Many states allow so-called "faithless electors" to ignore their states' votes and cast ballots for another presidential candidate without penalty.