Sentences with phrase «most death penalty»

Most death penalty cases, from trials to appeals, rack up a large bill for multiple state agencies.

Not exact matches

For example, jurors who oppose the death penalty will most likely acknowledge they wouldn't impose a capital sentence.

Of the states that haven't abolished the death penalty, Texas has carried out the most executions with 520 since 1977.

We know that the government has its reasons for seeking the death penalty, but the continued pursuit of that punishment could bring years of appeals and prolong reliving the most painful day of our lives.

And her record in death penalty cases speaks for itself: she has defended some of the most notorious killers in US history - including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Tucson shooter Jared Loughner, and Susan Smith, convicted of drowning her two young children in a South Carolina lake.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

Most murderers, even in Texas, do not receive the death penalty for their crimes.

We might question whether execution is always the most effective and fair means toward the end of protecting its citizens, and there may be many who misunderstand the purpose of the death penalty, construing it to be more than it really is.

When, in the great movement of modern liberalism, we demythologized the state and rejected most of the metaphysical foundations of politics, we gained much» but we also lost something, and one of the things we lost is any coherent theory about the nation's continuing authority to enact such metaphysically fitting punishments as the death penalty.

(WWM) One of today's most prominent persecuted Christians has been allowed to appeal her death penalty for blasphemy to Pakistan's highest court.

Most of the essays discuss police brutality, the malfeasance of prison guards and officials (if what he says about them is true, it's scandalous, but I have my doubts), and the death penalty.

Personally, the existence of the death penalty, which is supported by most «godly» people leads me to believe that we humans are just one more animal species living in a godless jungle, although having ruled out the existence of God, I can't yet rule out the existence of Satan.

(CNN)- The death penalty has been part of human society for millennia, understood to be the ultimate punishment for the most serious crimes.

As scholars such as Christian Brugger have argued, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, most particularly in its revised form, seems to treat the death penalty, not primarily in terms of the special public authority of government, but in terms of the moral norms generally used in Catholic moral theology to govern the use of force in private self - defense.

Ed: I think people know you for some of those issues... But probably one place with the most evident the difference between you and your church would be in the death penalty.

However, your organization, and most Christian progressives, oppose the death penalty, but support legal abortion.

Of course, when our genetics are threatened, as in the case of someone trying to harm a family member, or in the case of someone threatening our social group, or country, even the most devout Christian may opt to defend with deadly force, or support the death penalty, and going to war.

The stickiest point for most people is that not only was the doc.ument itself Top Secret for decades, it explictly stated that anybody involved in this type of investigation, including the accuser and potential witnesses, are sworn to secrecy regarding any and all details, upon penalty of excommunication (a fate worse than death for the devout).

For example, the death penalty (which most Republicans support, haven't figured that one out yet) is wrong in every form of Christianity; Thou shalt not kill.

And where Christians are most concentrated is where the death penalty has flourished.

In fact when you go through the laws given by god in the OT the death penalty is given very freely for even the most minor infractions, and some of them are difficult to be seen as infractions, such as mixing two different types of cloth.

Inevitably, the death penalty has been imposed most frequently, on the poor, and in this country it has been imposed in disproportionate numbers on blacks.

In the House of Lords, the chief justice of the Kings Bench, Lord Ellenborough, predicted that the next step would be abolition of the death penalty for stealing five shillings from a house; thereafter no one could «trust himself for an hour without the most alarming apprehension that, on his return, every vestige of his property [would] be swept away by the hardened robber» (quoted by Herbert B. Ehrmann in «The Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. death penalty for stealing five shillings from a house; thereafter no one could «trust himself for an hour without the most alarming apprehension that, on his return, every vestige of his property [would] be swept away by the hardened robber» (quoted by Herbert B. Ehrmann in «The Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], ppenalty for stealing five shillings from a house; thereafter no one could «trust himself for an hour without the most alarming apprehension that, on his return, every vestige of his property [would] be swept away by the hardened robber» (quoted by Herbert B. Ehrmann in «The Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], pPenalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], pPenalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. 415).

The death penalty involves executing people convicted of certain crimes (most often murder).

Hillary Clinton said she doesn't support abolishing the death penalty but would like to see it used more judiciously, another point of contrast with the most liberal members of her party and with her nearest rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Most evangelicals are anti-abortion and for the death penalty, invoking separate principles for fetuses and criminals.

For instance, support for the death penalty was the most reliable predictor of voting Leave.

A second, briefer but more striking example: Anglicans have been consistently most in favour of the death penalty, 61 % agreeing or agreeing strongly that «for some crimes, the death penalty is the most appropriate sentence» in 2012, down from 68 % in 2005.

And of course I remember him most because at this time there was a great deal of discussion about the death penalty.

The March 22 national poll found most U.S. voters back life over death penalty; voters back anti-gun march 2 - 1, but say it won't work.

In his most infamous moment, Dukakis had provided a bloodless, wonkish reply to a debate question about whether he might reconsider his opposition to the death penalty if his wife were raped and murdered.

This was used and cited the most often in cases of inmates who had been given the death penalty: from 1965 to 1993 (when the death penalty was formally abolished) death sentences were automatically commuted to life imprisonment under the Royal Prerogative.

That prompted Malloy to note that «most organized religions in the United States are against the death penalty.»

Kindlon — a Marine who was shot in the head during the Tet Offensive in 1968 and was awarded a Purple Heart — has worked death penalty cases and some of the most recognizable trials in the region.

The most puzzling aspect of the find is an inscription identifying a Roman military man named Gaianos as the donor who paid for the mosaics — either a suicidal gesture of generosity in a time when the practice of Christianity carried the death penalty, or an indication that the church was built during a period of relative open - mindedness.

To, [what] I thought the most sophisticated level was, one of the doctors who participated was against the death penalty; but he thought right through the problem he was faced with, he observed a couple of executions before he gave any kind of answer, and he felt that, you know, if people are going to be executed, and that's not going to be stopped, that he would help to make sure that this person doesn't suffer.

I understand with what modern gaming has done, that most people will never enjoy this game, because it wasnt meant for you to save every 5 seconds and have no penalty for death, it was meant to be hardcore and take you weeks on end to actually get good enough to beat it.

However, his most acclaimed project to date was 1995's Dead Man Walking, a gut - wrenching examination of the death penalty, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Director; Sean Penn, portraying a death - row inmate, garnered a Best Actor nomination while Sarandon won Best Actress honors.

by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).

For the witnesses of the most recent court session, the experience raised questions about justice, humanity and the ethics of the death penalty.

If the insurance requirement is impossible to meet, then that is no different than a death penalty for that dog in most cases, and would be considered an inhumane and unjust outcome that wasn't anticipated by the legislators.

However, the gory death scenes are spot on and make it seem like more of a penalty then most games.

Most objectives are clear cut and straight forward, there is a very minimal penalty for death (except right at the end of the game, which spikes the difficulty out of nowhere), and the only real point is to finish the game's story with unlockables dangling over your head like a carrot.

Nowadays most games have lighter penalties, like gear repairs, but the idea of punishment for death is still there.

These games will often have an increased difficulty and death penalty such as loss of strength, maximum health, and / or currency / XP including having to restart the area with most, if not, all enemies respawned.

While most cultures today tend to attempt a «humane» death for those who are deemed to deserve such a penalty, the crucifixion was inflicted on criminals particularly because it was inhumane.

Cruelty as entertainment, human sacrifice to indulge superstition, slavery as a labor - saving device, conquest as the mission statement of government, genocide as a means of acquiring real estate, torture and mutilation as routine punishment, the death penalty for misdemeanors and differences of opinion, assassination as the mechanism of political succession, rape as the spoils of war, pogroms as outlets for frustration, homicide as the major form of conflict resolution — all were unexceptionable features of life for most of human history.

Most states with the death penalty have laws that say only certain «aggravating» factors can qualify a murderer for the punishment.

This is the longest sentence in Canadian history and the most severe penalty since the death penalty was abolished in -LSB-...]

I have been kvetching a lot, most recently in posts here and here, about the Supreme Court's expenditure of so much time and energy on death penalty cases when there is so much post-Blakely and post-Booker work to be done.