Sentence examples for whether execution from inspiring English sources

Judge Rakoff has not even engaged the question whether execution is "cruel and unusual" as banned by the Eighth Amendment.

One dramatic example came in 2008, in Baze v. Rees, which asked whether execution by lethal injection amounted to cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

In another case involving a mentally retarded death row inmate, the Supreme Court on June 4 overturned the death sentence of Johnny Paul Penry but did not directly decide whether execution of the mentally retarded is "cruel and unusual punishment," in violation of the Constitution.

Ms Matsushima points to public support of over 85% on carefully-worded surveys put out by the cabinet: respondents reply to whether execution is "unavoidable if the circumstance demands it".Mr Hakamada would not be the first elderly or infirm inmate to be hanged in Japan.

At issue was whether execution was "cruel and unusual punishment" for 16 and 17 year olds.

This individual leaves open the question of whether execution ("carrying out or accomplishing the implementation according to plan," a core CFIR construct, Table  1) has actually been achieved.

In the last half of the 20th century, there was considerable debate regarding whether executions should be broadcast on television, as has occurred in Guatemala.

They look at the experiences of states or counties, gauging whether executions at a given time seemed to affect the murder rate that year, the year after or at some other later time.

But Mr. Hancock, who is now working on a supporting brief challenging capital punishment in the next case scheduled to be considered by the court, said the judges would eventually have to confront fundamental questions about whether executions pass muster under the New York State Constitution.

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