Sentence examples for punishment trials from inspiring English sources

Typically in the sentencing phase of capital punishment trials, prosecutors make a case for death and the defense makes a case for life.

Children can also take a closer look at the gorier side of history with hands-on activities and take part in crime and punishment trials, following a Gruesome Trail around the abbey.

The court has also introduced more stringent rules for death penalty cases, increasing the burden of evidence on prosecutors and saying that only experienced judges should handle capital punishment trials.

Legislative analysts this week said such a move would save California some $150 million a year, by reducing the costs of capital punishment trials and subsequent penalty appeals.

Death penalty cases are often the most expensive in the criminal justice system because the costs associated with capital punishment trials and the incarceration of death row offenders are vastly higher.

Cooperation in this game was low irrespective of the outcome of the previous trial (Figure 1e and f), resulting in low rates of both reward and sucker trials, and high incidence of temptation and punishment trials (Friedman's ANOVA testing for effect of outcome, Q(3) = 77.915, two-tailed P<0.0001.Figure 1g).

An article last Sunday about the first capital punishment trial in Westchester County Court since 1974 misstated the conditions under which the defendant, Dennis Alvarez-Hernandez, was charged with first-degree murder.

In a separate appeal, Mr. Hood was granted a new punishment trial on grounds that jurors were not allowed to properly consider mitigating evidence that might have persuaded them that he didn't deserve a death sentence.

Clifton L. Holmes, a Longview, Tex., defense lawyer who is one of Mr. Banks's appeal lawyers, said Mr. Banks's trial lawyer did "very little preparation in terms of preparing for the punishment trial and introducing those kinds of things that all courts recognize as mitigating factors, such as the condition of his upbringing and the like".

U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel set the federal proceedings, in which prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof, ahead of a state capital punishment trial scheduled for January.

This rule does not apply either for choices between negative outcomes (i.e. after a temptation trial, T, or a punishment trial, P), nor to the game where the stooge is playing a pseudo-random strategy, where on each trial the rat's choice may lead to one of four possible outcomes, both positive and negative (see Figure S3).