Sentence examples for sentencing instructions from inspiring English sources

In its most recent ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia, overturned the death sentence on the ground that the jury's sentencing instructions violated a 1988 Supreme Court decision holding that jurors did not have to agree unanimously on the existence of "mitigating circumstances" that could weigh against that state's argument for death.

The Supreme Court ruled today that a judge presiding over a death penalty case was not obliged to clear up the jury's confusion over a crucial sentencing instruction.

There is a single sentence instruction at the start of the scale asking respondents to consider their experience over the previous four weeks.

The state court may well take note of the fact that Kansas now offers the very type of sentencing jury instruction that these defendants didn't get.

To evaluate GPs' fears, avoidance attitudes and beliefs, we did not modify the phrasing of items but slightly adapted the first sentence of instructions to patients.

Everything about the game seems designed to annoy the impatient, including the tutorial, in which each sentence of instruction is followed by five seconds of silence, and the game narrative, which is tedious and incoherent.

Other people only have a few sentences of instruction to work with.

The second sentence of the instructions was completely deleted, because translation of this sentence tended to make users confused especially in Malay.

In 1989, the court ruled that the Constitution permitted the execution of mentally retarded people, but it overturned Mr. Penry's sentence because jury instructions did not allow jurors to take his retardation sufficiently into account.

Experiment 3 was identical to Experiment 1 except that one sentence of the instructions was changed.

However, the subjects raised a concern on the first sentence of the instructions, which created some misconceptions.