Sentence examples for won death from inspiring English sources

The office won death sentences in both.

The governor of Virginia, James Gilmore, a Republican who has won death sentences as a local prosecutor and defended them as the state's attorney-general, was unimpressed.

Former chief prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, who sought and won death sentences for Atkins, Manson and other followers, said Atkins would be remembered "obviously as a member of a group that committed among the most horrendous crimes in American history.

Nationwide, federal prosecutors win death penalties about one-third of the time, according to the group's statistics.

States waste millions of dollars on winning death penalty verdicts, which require an expensive second trial, new witnesses and long jury selections.

Local prosecutors in Virginia were chosen to be first to prosecute the suspects because Mr. Ashcroft believes that the state offers the best chance of winning death sentences against them.

The court appearances followed by a day Attorney General John Ashcroft's order that the suspects, Lee Malvo, 17, and John Muhammad, 41, be turned over from federal custody to prosecutors in Virginia, where the likelihood of winning death sentences was greatest.

Lawyers for a convicted killer on death row are asking New York's highest court to make it harder for prosecutors to win death sentences, just as some prosecutors are growing impatient with the court, which has yet to approve a single execution.

At trial in September 1988, Robert Rumsey, the powerful Talladega County district attorney known for winning death penalty convictions, centered his case on Venn's testimony.

'In all, I've won four death penalty cases.

They won a death verdict in 2007, the first one in New York since 1953.