Sentence examples for prosecution of death from inspiring English sources

For decades, German jurists had argued that prosecution of death camp guards was possible only if they could be tied to specific crimes.

Citing the experiences of people on death row who have been exonerated, as well as indications that race plays a role in in the prosecution of death penalty cases, Attorney General J.

But successful prosecution of the death penalty extends our national cycle of violence and death and the almost certain continued disproportionate execution of people who are Black, Brown, poor, and impaired - the traditional subjects of capital punishment, a penalty rooted in racial terrorism.

The inquiry, headed by the former High Court judge and SAS colonel Sir William Macpherson of Cluny, will have the power to call the five men acquitted in a private prosecution of Stephen Lawrence's death.

How Baltimore's prompt prosecution of police in death of Freddie Gray might backfire.

"That begins with common sense reforms like ending racial profiling, providing better training on de-escalation and implicit bias, and supporting municipalities that refer the investigation and prosecution of police-involved deaths to independent bodies.

In reaching a decision about misconduct in public office, the CPS also took into account the fact that the Court of Appeal has indicated that it would be wrong to charge misconduct in public office as an alternative to a charge of manslaughter in circumstances where the prosecution cannot prove the cause of death.

For the country's first 200 years, federal prosecution of cases where the death penalty was possible was largely limited to espionage, murder on federal property, murder in the course of bank robbery, or, after the Lindbergh kidnapping, interstate kidnapping.

The report found that taxpayers spend huge sums on prosecution of an inordinate number of death-penalty cases, though we've seen 18 death sentences since 2003; that prosecutors seek the penalty as a bargaining ploy in pursuit of a lesser guilty plea and sentence, and that $64 million has been spent on civil damage awards to men whose death row convictions were reversed.

Further, of the 94 federal judicial districts, just 14 account for over half of death penalty prosecutions: 40% of the federal death row population comes from seven districts.

Since there are more than 40 crimes for which the federal death penalty is a potential punishment, the lack of cases from those jurisdictions raised the question of the uniform application of death penalty prosecutions.