Sentence examples for penalty execution from inspiring English sources

Capital punishment, also called death penalty, execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense.

III c. 11, s. 8), enacted in 1687, provided that, in an action on any bond given for performance of agreements, while judgment would be entered for the penalty, execution should issue only for the damages actually sustained.

Execution despairs at America's obsession with the death penalty ("Execution, it's the American Dream!") while Obama, Drone Bomb Me and Violent Men don't exactly need a degree in advanced metaphor to interpret.

More common criminals could expect other forms of penalty: execution, for example, and various kinds of corporal punishment; forced labor and conscription; public humiliation; the levying of fines; exile; loss of privileges and offices; and so on.

Mathematics- Research death penalty execution statistics as they relate to different variables, such as age, race, gender, state, crime, etc. Choose a handful of statistics that you find compelling and graph them to show their relationship to one another (for example, you could show years on one axis and number of executions on another).

In that job, I got to research murders, flip my dainty fingers through death penalty execution files and deal with stupid, stupid criminals.

He spent the longest time on death row of anyone in Texas since the state resumed death penalty executions in 1982.

Eventually, hundreds of similar reports resulted in a decision by Illinois Governor George Ryan to declare a moratorium on death penalty executions in Illinois in 2000 and to clear the state's death row in 2003.

"It is ironic to see how we strive to save lives of Indonesians abroad from death penalty executions while in this country Indonesia practices the execution of other countries' citizens," said Indri D. Saptaningrum, executive director of ELSAM, a Jakarta-based human rights group.

See articleThe vice-president of China's supreme court said the country would reduce death-penalty executions "to an extremely small number".

"To use them to subject someone to the cruel and extreme penalty of execution is truly appalling," he added in a statement, which stressed the "urgent need" to stop executions.