Sentence examples for punishment state from inspiring English sources

"I am taking my legal responsibilities, and am willing to accept any punishment," state news agency Xinhua quoted him as saying.

His punishment: state-sponsored suicide, courtesy of a measure of hemlock poison in his prison cell.

The names of the executioners are kept secret in all capital punishment states.

Almost all the capital punishment states, including Ohio, have opted for "lethal injection".

By Hendrik Hertzberg September 23, 2009 Almost all the capital punishment states, including Ohio, have opted for "lethal injection".

Maya Foa, a death penalty expert with Reprieve, welcomed Hikma's pledge to cut off the supply route to US corrections departments in capital punishment states.

Hikma is the latest pharmaceutical company to be caught selling death penalty drugs to the US amid a growing boycott across Europe and around the world of lethal injection drug sales to capital punishment states.

A year that began with the U.S. Supreme Court striking down the death penalty in one of the most active capital punishment states ended with the country reaching modern lows in executions and death sentences, the most glaring signs yet about how the practice has dwindled in America today.

To avoid humiliation and punishment, states and school districts have come up with ingenious ways of gaming the system to ensure that more and more students are passing state tests.

Rather than executing the so-called worst of the worst, the nation's capital punishment states tend to execute the weakest of the weak and, occasionally, the innocent.

In one of the most aggressive capital punishment states in the country, a new prosecutor is drawing praise for her refusal to seek the death penalty in any of her cases going forward.