Sentence examples for penalty statutes from inspiring English sources

And, certainly, most states have death penalty statutes.

In 1976, the court heard oral arguments on five new state death penalty statutes known collectively as Gregg v. Georgia.

Calling Mr. Muhammad the "captain" of a "killing team," commonwealth attorneys have charged him under two death penalty statutes.

That decision forced states to reconsider their death penalty statutes to ensure they were not administered in a capricious or discriminatory manner.

The Supreme Court had invalidated all state death penalty statutes in 1972, finding that they were applied in an arbitrary manner.

In response to questions, a spokeswoman for Governor Pataki said the legal battle in New York "is similar to the experience in other states that have reinstated death penalty statutes".

The state's death penalty statute was invalidated in 2004.

Under the death penalty statute, civilians face death by hanging.

In 2004, the State Court of Appeals ruled that part of the state death penalty statute was unconstitutional.

Finally, the death penalty statute specifies that the trial should occur where the crime took place.

Justice Paul Pfiefer of the Ohio Supreme Court, who helped write the state's death penalty statute in 1981, told state lawmakers in December that "Ohio is no longer well served by our death-penalty statute.