(The last death sentence administered by the military occurred in 1961).
Incidents such as the death sentence administered by the Parlement of Paris in 1766 against the 18-year-old chevalier de la Barre, accused of mutilating a crucifix and owning a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique (1764; Philosophical Dictionary), showed, however, that the courts were not entirely on the side of the Enlightenment.
Julie Stewart, president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, applauded Leonhart for what appeared to be shift in tone, and said the Smarter Sentencing Act would help make sure sentences were administered appropriately.
Four lists of sentences were administered, with each list consisting of six sentences.
These sentences are administered by local juvenile probation departments, which are overburdened and underfinanced, in large part because the probation system has no strong advocate in Albany.
U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan formally administered the sentence on Stamford, Conn., company SAC Capital and three related entities based on pleas last fall by the companies to wire fraud and securities fraud.
Simply stated, Davis's conviction, sentence, and lethal injection were administered under a reasonable amount of reasonable doubt.
Clayton's slow, writhing death after a lethal injection is the latest in a very long history of poorly administered death sentences.
The militants' principal power center is a mosque in Falluja led by an Iraqi cleric, Abdullah al-Janabi, who has instituted a Taliban-like rule in the city, rounding up people suspected of theft and rape and sentencing them to publicly administered lashes, and, in some cases, beheading.
In recent months, bulldozers also have cleared the flogging field where tens of thousands of lashes were administered under sentences doled out by Pakistan's late military ruler, President Zia ul-Haq, in his own version of Islamic law, for offenses ranging from theft to rebellion.
However, in the random-order sentence production tests that were administered in the test session with old and novel items, respectively, participants in the Prose group did not exceed the chance level.
