Sentence examples for veterans death from inspiring English sources

To many valiant veterans, death is not as daunting as the indignity of quitting.

Shinseki's leadership has come under fire after claims that up to 40 veterans' deaths have been linked to excessive wait times for service at a Phoenix VA facility, where officials may have kept separate record books to hide the problem.

Mortality information was obtained from the VA Vital Status file, which has a sensitivity of ~98% for veterans' deaths [ 9].

Quin Denvir, a veteran death penalty lawyer who is the chief federal defender in Sacramento, said it is difficult for defense lawyers to respond to such demands.

Today, the head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. and a veteran death penalty lawyer, George Kendall, said, "A tie shouldn't go to the executioner".

The new guidelines suggest "an intention to impose the death penalty in states that don't have it," said David I. Bruck, a veteran death penalty lawyer at the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, which provides assistance to court-appointed lawyers in federal death penalty cases.

"You'll have cases where the prosecutor doesn't believe the death penalty ought to be imposed, yet will be required to stand before a jury and ask for it," said David A. Ruhnke, a veteran death penalty lawyer.

For all its local elements, the Elmore case is typical of many capital cases around the country, said John Blume, a veteran death penalty defense lawyer in Columbia, S.C., who has worked on Mr. Elmore's appeal.

"The reason this decision will be so revealing is that the case is so local and has so little federal interest," said David I. Bruck, a veteran death penalty lawyer at the Federal Death Penalty Resource Project, a federally financed program that provides assistance to court-appointed lawyers in federal capital cases.

David I. Bruck, a veteran death penalty defense lawyer from South Carolina who favors a moratorium, said that while the Justice Department claims that there is no discrimination, and while critics counter that the statistics leave no other possible conclusion, the fact is that "we just don't know".

The Times adjusted the non-veteran death rates so they reflected the age and gender mix of the veteran population.