Sentence examples for permitted death from inspiring English sources
Following Hurst, Florida still permitted death sentences by non-unanimous jury vote, requiring at least 10 votes rather than 12.
Before the month was out, Deukmejian introduced a package of anti-crime legislation, including his bill that would have permitted death sentences for some armed robbers.
Article 118(4) by its terms permits death to be imposed for felony murder even if the accused had no intent to kill and even if he did not do the killing himself.
Abbasgholizadeh and other reformists have waged a lengthy battle against laws that permit death by stoning for women accused of adultery, the practice of polygamy, employment laws that favor men, and family laws that deny divorcees full custody of their children and entitle them to half the inheritance a man can receive.
This all takes place in a context of perinatal medicine where the issues at stake are high, to enable life or to permit death.
Under the law relatives are not even permitted a death certificate.
In 1988, Congress adopted what became known as the "drug kingpin statute," which permitted a death penalty against an individual found guilty of committing murder as part of a larger drug-running enterprise.
However, in 2005, the Court overturned Stanford in Roper v. Simmons and Scalia again dissented, mocking the majority's claims that a national consensus had emerged against the execution of those who killed while under age, and noted that less than half of the states that permitted the death penalty prohibited it for underage killers.
The lackadaisical international response has already permitted the deaths of about 100,000 people in Darfur, and up to 10,000 more are dying each month.
This alliance of interests has robbed the impoverished families of murdered farmers of any sense of justice and has permitted the deaths to continue.
Though Israeli law permits the death penalty, the Israeli government has only put one person to death: Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, in 1962.
