Sentence examples for the issue of executing from inspiring English sources

The United States Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that there was no national consensus against the execution of minors, and last week took up the issue of executing the mentally retarded.

In a decision likely to renew debate over the issue of executing prisoners who commit murder before the age of 18, the highest criminal court in Texas yesterday cleared the way for a death row inmate to be executed, possibly next month.

The issue of effortlessly executing a process on an independent computer is, in our opinion, not satisfactorily solvable given the current state of technology.

Helen Raynor was inspired to write the episode to explore the issue of soldiers executed for cowardice during the First World War.

"For example, " he said, "you had a report in Al Jazeera the other day where the guy in Baghdad was asking their correspondent in London whether the issue of British troops executing Iraqi prisoners of war came up in the debate here.

In overturning the death sentence of a retarded Texas inmate, Johnny Paul Penry, on the basis of inadequate jury instruction, the Supreme Court did not address the underlying issue of whether executing the mentally retarded is "cruel and unusual punishment" within the modern meaning of the Eighth Amendment.

Hayes had landed in uniform and should have been considered a prisoner of war, but he was executed following the issue of the commando order which called for the execution of all commandos upon capture.

The Servants Anonymous Society's chief financial officer, Dominique Machefert, said that her organization "applauds the Conservative Government for taking the issue of human trafficking seriously and for executing the necessary steps to enact the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking".

But the Supreme Court still has before it Mr. Beazley's petition to review his case on the issue of whether it is unconstitutional to execute a juvenile offender.

Raynor was also inspired by the issue of World War I soldiers who were executed for cowardice when they were suffering from shellshock.

In November, she joined Justice Ginsburg in signing a statement issued by Justice John Paul Stevens, condemning "the perversity of executing inmates" — the inmate in question was one of the Beltway snipers — "before their appeals process has been fully concluded".