Typically in the sentencing phase of capital punishment trials, prosecutors make a case for death and the defense makes a case for life.
It is employed throughout Canada in parole-board hearings and is gaining popularity in the U.S. In the thirty-seven states that allow the death penalty, a high psychopathy score is often used by prosecutors as an "aggravating factor" in the penalty phase of capital cases.
The jury's verdicts, which were read by Judge Carlos Samour Jr, brought the case to the next phase: consideration of capital punishment.
"We are already in the second phase of a capital spending increase," he said.
The dorm is the first phase of a capital improvement project sought by the college's president, Albert Donor.
As part of its 125th-anniversary celebration this year, the fund started the second phase of its capital drive, with a goal of $5 million.
"We're in the quiet phase of the capital campaign, and we have a bit of a way to go," Mr. Brand said.
On Friday the museum announced the start of the second phase of its capital campaign with matching gifts of $5 million, adding to $28.5 million in existing pledges.
To finance the expansion the center is in the initial phase of a capital campaign to raise $8.6 million, Mr. Littman said.
They noted that nonlawyers — and death penalty defendants — sometimes think that pleading guilty will bring mercy in the penalty phase of a capital case.
Although he declined to say how much money had been raised for the new building or how much the Whitney still needed, he said that the initial, or so-called silent, phase of the capital campaign was "going forward".
