Sentence examples for practice capital from inspiring English sources

One of their most ludicrous tropes is to liken the U.S. to authoritarian regimes that also practice capital punishment.

But it is legitimate to doubt — in fact, it is grotesque to suggest — that hanging (or beheading, stoning, shooting, electrocution, or lethal injection, the other methods currently in use in the countries, most of them unfree, that still practice capital punishment) can possibly be done in a "dignified way".

Most states that still practice capital punishment also do not have the killing of an intimate partner or a child as an aggravating favor.

Over two thirds of the countries in the world have abolished the death penalty by law, and America is the only Western country to still practice capital punishment.

An Associated Press survey of the 32 states that practice capital punishment found that the vast majority have passed laws shielding information about lethal injection drugs and their suppliers.

All of the defendants face life in prison; while Puerto Rico does not practice capital punishment, because the charges are federal, 18 defendants charged with murder are eligible for the death penalty.

Now the firing squad, a Utah way of death that began in pioneer days and lingered after other states that practiced capital punishment had moved on to more sanitized means of killing, is back.

The European Union regards this phenomenon as so inhumane that, on the basis of a binding ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (1989), EU countries may extradite an offender accused of a capital crime to a country that practices capital punishment only if a guarantee is given that the death penalty will not be sought.

The death penalties were condemned by Amnesty International in Japan, which called them "disgraceful" and criticized the country for still practicing capital punishment. .

The U.S. is the only first-world democracy that still practices capital punishment, a distinction noted in the ANA's analysis.

Perhaps because of lazy stereotypes about Japan being weird or cute, full of green Kit Kats and toilets that wash your bum, it's not especially well known that the country still practices capital punishment.