Sentence examples for penalty sentence from inspiring English sources

His first death penalty sentence was overturned by a judge who said prosecutors prejudiced the jury.

In commuting a death penalty sentence to life without parole, Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware met the imperative of justice.

The court overturned the state's first death penalty sentence last year, but the ruling was narrowly constructed.

No jury has delivered a federal death penalty sentence in New York State since the penalty was reinstated in 1988.

"There does not appear to be a viable death penalty sentence to which Mr. Sizemore would be exposed," he told the judge.

I'm not aware of any case in recent years in which the death penalty sentence has been upheld … the jurisprudence propounded by the privy council has been such as to make it extremely difficult to make lawful a death penalty sentence".

"I take all death penalty sentences to heart," he said.

Mr. Scheidegger said the authority some governors had to commute or delay death penalty sentences "is given for the purpose of correcting injustices in individual cases.

Justice Fisher was the last judge in New York to impose the death penalty, sentencing one of the killers in the Wendy's case, John B. Taylor, to death in 2003.

Seven British judges will consider whether two convicted murderers from Trinidad should have their death penalty sentences lifted by the privy council.

Lately, there have been numerous disturbing examples of the "cruel and unusual" circumstances associated with carrying out death penalty sentences in the United States.