Sentence examples for penalty sentencing from inspiring English sources

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.

Re "Death Sentence Overturned in 1981 Killing of Officer" (news article, Dec. 19): I hope that one result of the overturning of the death penalty against Mumia Abu-Jamal will be a refined media and political focus on the inequality of death penalty sentencing around the country.

Delaware has halted capital murder cases and death penalty sentencing hearings, pending litigation.

Florida struck down Florida's death penalty sentencing scheme as unconstitutional, ruling that a jury, not a judge, must specify the reason a defendant should be punished with death.  .

The state's judicial override has looked tenuous ever since the Supreme Court's 2016 ruling in Hurst v. Florida, which struck down a death penalty sentencing scheme that was nearly identical to Alabama's.

The role of race in death penalty sentencing became a major issue in the county when the U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of Duane Buck, after reviewing the testimony of a psychologist who said during the trial that black people were more likely to commit violence.

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

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.