Sentence examples for penalty state from inspiring English sources

Texas is the nation's most active death penalty state.

While a majority of Americans support the death penalty, state polls show that a majority of those supporters make an exception for the mentally retarded, even in the fiercely pro-death penalty state of Texas.

Such import restrictions could tempt Oregon's unscrupulous wholesaler to re-sell the returned drugs to yet another death penalty state.

The outcome of Hall's case is unlikely to affect the busiest death penalty state, Texas, which does not impose a rigid IQ test to assess mental disability.

The Kingdom is the only major death penalty state to be omitted from a 20-page Foreign Office document setting out the UK's five-year strategy to reduce the use of executions around the world.

The decision to postpone Charles Hood's execution marked the first time in Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, that those responsible for carrying out the execution were the ones to call it off.

The British government responded that the death penalty states would simply buy it elsewhere.

That high standard calls into question the record of other death penalty states.

Oklahoma, like many other death penalty states, keeps secret the source of its execution drugs.

Of the 38 death penalty states, only Nebraska has taken a similar step.

Absent that, death penalty states have followed a road of untested drug combinations and secret sources.