Sentence examples for penalty hearing from inspiring English sources

"You know," Mr. Ullmann said, "we're in the middle of a death penalty hearing.

In one case, a defense lawyer failed to prepare any strategy for his client at the death penalty hearing the day after the conviction, saying he had been hoping that the jury would opt for manslaughter charges.

Judge Kenneth Scheibenberger of Superior Court, was slated to preside over the February penalty hearing for Zolo Azania, who has twice been convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 killing of a Gary police officer.

It was in anticipation of a possible death penalty hearing that lawyers for Mr. Al-'Owhali and Mr. Mohamed objected to the government's use of certain photographs, some from morgues and one depicting the charred remains of a body on the street, as well as the testimony of the witnesses, saying the jury could be unfairly prejudiced.

But the prosecutor removed him anyway, explaining when later challenged by the defense lawyer that the student might have been so eager to get his jury service over with quickly that he would be reluctant to convict the defendant of a capital crime that would require a separate death penalty hearing.

But some victims who had testified at the death penalty hearing reacted with anger and sadness.

And, of course, there is Tiger Woods, lurking four shots behind the leaders, despite the two-stroke penalty heard round the world.

Stephen DiCarmine took the stand at his cousin's death-penalty hearing in May, 2011, the only family member to testify.

When Judith Mwila testified last month in the death-penalty hearing for a terrorist convicted in the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Tanzania, she described how hard her life had been since the death of her husband.

In DiCarmine's case, his past testimony as a character witness at the death-penalty hearing for his cousin Vincent Basciano — the head of the Bonanno organized-crime family — may not have endeared him to law enforcement.

In DiCarmine's case, his past testimony as a character witness at the death-penalty hearing for his cousin Vincent Basciano the head of the Bonanno organized-crime family may not have endeared him to law enforcement.