Sentence examples for penalty sentences from inspiring English sources
"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.
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.
Governor Ryan, who said he would appoint a panel to study death penalty sentences, heads the Illinois campaign for Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, the state that executes more people than any other.
The increasing difficulty prosecutors are having in attaining and carrying out death penalty sentences could be because the public is waking up to the high cost and increasing number of wrongful convictions (138 as of today from death rows across the country) associated with the death penalty.
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.
No jury has delivered a federal death penalty sentence in New York State since the penalty was reinstated in 1988.
The court overturned the state's first death penalty sentence last year, but the ruling was narrowly constructed.
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.
