Sentences with phrase «death row prisoner who»

How can we say it's unfair for Iran to execute anyone a mere week after the Supreme Court wouldn't even hear an appeal for a death row prisoner who might have been unjustly convicted?

Although the concept of a «last meal» for death row prisoners who are about to be executed is under attack for being wasteful and unnecessary in places such as Texas and Florida, the practice still seems to be quite common in most jurisdictions.

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They also cared for their comrades on death row: in one instance a prisoner «so much... love [d] the man who was about to die» that he «scaled the fence that enclosed the death - row exercise yard and reached the roof of a nearby building before he was stopped on his way to the death house,» where he «had intended to disable the [electric] chair's generator.»

The worship leader describes the extraordinary story of a group of death row prisoners, known as the Bali Nine, who sang his well - known song as they were shot

The number of false convictions among the death - sentenced has been particularly hard to estimate, Gross says, because many prisoners who are on death row are eventually moved off of it but remain in prison, which often reduces their chances of exoneration.

In this decision, the 2nd Circuit exonerated U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny for his handling of the case of death row prisoner Michael Ross, who decided to forego habeas petitions and was scheduled to die by lethal injection (full account of the story is here).