Sentence examples for uphold capital from inspiring English sources

To uphold capital punishment is therefore to make killing itself normal: something that it is not even for the great majority of murderers.

And a look at the record would have shown that even when it came to the death penalty he voted to uphold capital sentences in 70percentt of the cases that came before him.

Having voted in 1976 to uphold capital punishment, he now agreed with the late Justice Byron White (in Furman v Georgia, 1972) that its imposition represents "the pointless and needless extinction of life with only marginal contributions to any discernible social or public purposes".

But in 1989, the court upheld capital punishment for offenders 16 and 17.

Opponents of the death penalty have pressed the court for several years to reconsider a 1989 decision that upheld capital punishment for older teenagers; a decision in 1988 struck down the death penalty for those age 15 and younger.

"After reviewing all of the facts in the case of Robert Lee Thompson, who had a murderous history and participated in the killing of Mansoor Bhai Rahim Mohammed," Mr. Perry said in a statement, "I have decided to uphold the jury's capital murder conviction and capital punishment".

"Not surprisingly, given the political pressures they face, judges are far more likely than juries to impose the death penalty," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in a 1995 dissent from a decision that upheld Alabama's capital sentencing system.

The S.E.C.'s mission is to uphold the integrity of the capital markets, not to protect retirees or promote balanced budgets.

In a divided chamber considered key to overturning the death penalty, Kittleman and a few other senators may cast the deciding votes on whether to uphold Maryland's narrowly written capital punishment law or to erase it from the books for the first time in 35 years.

In both cases the niches owe their form to Western influence, but those on the ossuary are formed of columns surmounted by capitals upholding pearl-studded arches, while on the ewers the Central Asian rosette replaces the capitals and the pearls.

The Supreme Court upheld Alabama's capital-sentencing system in 1995.