Sentences with phrase «against the death penalty for»

There are of course further issues with capital punishment, like the number of innocent people who have been executed by our gov «t. I would think anyone on the «sanct!ty of life» bandwagon would necessarily be against the death penalty for that reason alone.

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The judge in the death - penalty case against a suspected USS Cole attacker has found the the chief defense counsel for military commissions, Marine Brig. Gen. John Baker, in contempt, according to a report from the Miami Herald.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday called again for federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against drug traffickers who cause overdose deaths.

According to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), state prosecutors argued for the death penalty against Lim in Wednesday's 90 - minute trial at the nation's supreme court, reportsThe New York Times.

My old friend Peter J. Leithart joins Tony Montanaro, Gary Inbinder, and Kelley Vincent to argue» each for different reasons» against my worries about the implicit claims of authority made when modern democratic states employ the death penalty.

For me, this passage sums up the Christian argument against the death penalty.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

The member of the Ugandan Parliament behind a controversial «anti-gay» bill that would call for stiff penalties against homosexuality - including life imprisonment and the death penalty - says that the bill will become law «soon.»

I've worked closely with murder victims families who are against the death penalty and interviewed people who were responsible for overseeing executions and heard what it did to them.

For all my well - intentioned advocacy against the death penalty, I'm not certain I'd oppose it if the person on death row had killed my mother or my sister or my husband.

In the ensuing international backlash against the bill, Lively claimed that he did not support the death penalty for hom.ose.xuality but that if the «offending sections» were modified, the proposed law criminalizing hom.ose.xuality «would be an encouraging step in the right direction.»

She supports a woman's right to an abortion, is against the death penalty and corporal punishment, is not in favor of adopted children digging up their biological parents against their wishes, and believes that Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the incurably ill people who turn to him for painless deaths should be left alone.

One of the strongest arguments in recent years for abolishing the death penalty has arisen, not from the moral prohibition against the taking of life, but from the fact that with rare exceptions those who are executed are people who lack the means to secure good legal assistance, or lack the educational background to make full use of such assistance, or lack the social status which brings the case to public attention.11

Hugo Chavez trains terrorists like the FARC, ETA, and Iranians (but death penalty to Beck for crimes against humanity).

Islamic terrorism is a real danger to America (but death penalty to Beck for crimes against humanity).

We are in danger of another 9/11 attack (but death penalty to Beck for crimes against humanity).

WWM says the latest acquittal came in a low - profile case, much unlike the case against Bibi, who remains the only woman sentenced to the death penalty for blasphemy in Pakistan.

At the end of the day I think there are a lot of reasons to be against the death penalty, but for a Christian who believes that Jesus died to spare us from death and this idea of grace or as Scripture says «mercy triumphs over judgement.»

This is important because there are folks who are for the death penalty in principle, but they're against the death penalty in practice (because they look at how broken the system is in our country.)

imposed the death penalty for praying to any diety, that either the country, or the country it was fighting against, would win the war, or lose the war that they were engaged in.This was to protect the country from the influence of the church.

President Trump traveled to the first - in - the - nation primary state of New Hampshire to rail against drug dealers responsible for the deadly opioid epidemic devastating the US, vowing «tough action» including the death penalty.

They insist that Mario Cuomo got more done than he is often remembered for: holding firm against the death penalty, protecting the safety net in the era of selfishness, and, yes, even passing mundane reforms like a seat - belt law.

In the hustings, Nuttall, said the death penalty should be returned for those who kill children, while Suzanne Evans and Peter Whittle were against the punishment.

Local prosecutors in Orlando, with the approval of the state's AG, are asking for the death penalty against «tot mom», Casey Anthony.

When Cuomo, a devout Catholic, spoke at the University of Notre Dame, he set the model for progressive Democrats who championed assistance for the poor and might oppose the death penalty but rejected the Catholic church's rigid position against abortion.

Lewis also called into question Robach's votes against marriage equality and the Dream Act, and his support for the death penalty.

He told his interrogators what he thought of Prohibition (against, though he didn't drink), the death penalty (against, at least some of the time), and abortion (for, up to a certain point in the pregnancy).

The story takes place in the republic of Panem, where the United States has broken into 12 districts and, as a penalty for a failed uprising against the totalitarian government decades earlier, each district must offer one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in The Hunger Games, where the «tributes» must participate in a nationally televised battle to the death.

The film doesn't assume a polemical position regarding the death penalty — either for or against — though in the context of Singaporean authoritarianism it probably would have been banned, with writer - director Boo Junfeng imprisoned, had it taken an explicitly abolitionist stance.

The lessons included are: Religion and life Abortion Euthanasia Death and the afterlife The origins and value of the world The use and abuse of animals The use and abuse of the environment Revise, review and assess Existence of God and Revelation Design argument First cause argument Argument from miracles Arguments against the existence of God Special revelation and enlightenment General revelation Attributes of the divine and the value of revelation Crime and Punishment Crime and punishment Reasons for crime Aims of punishment Treatment pf criminals Suffering and forgiveness Death penalty Revision and assessment preparation Each lesson is fully resourced to a high standard, differentiated, challenging and engaging.

Worksheet used for homework outlining various arguments for and against the death penalty based on images.

For example, you may argue against death penalty and provide reasons why you think it should be abolished.

- Kirkus «This devastating read stands less as a polemic against the death penalty than as a heartbreaking brief for the preciousness of life.»

For example, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was slapped with the largest penalty of its kind in U.S. history for abusing elephants and lions after PETA urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take action against Ringling and presented indisputable evidence of the circus's animal abuse, including beatings, the death of a lion, lame elephants forced to perform despite chronic pain, and a baby elephant who died during a training routiFor example, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was slapped with the largest penalty of its kind in U.S. history for abusing elephants and lions after PETA urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take action against Ringling and presented indisputable evidence of the circus's animal abuse, including beatings, the death of a lion, lame elephants forced to perform despite chronic pain, and a baby elephant who died during a training routifor abusing elephants and lions after PETA urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take action against Ringling and presented indisputable evidence of the circus's animal abuse, including beatings, the death of a lion, lame elephants forced to perform despite chronic pain, and a baby elephant who died during a training routine.

Which side has failed to stop its partisans from calling for crimes - against - humanity trials and even the death penalty?

Taking a page from the «death panel» lies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and energy - funded groups like Americans for Prosperity waged an all - out campaign against the climate bill, indelibly branding common - sense penalties on climate polluters as «taxes.»

That's one reason why yesterday I launched my shameless attempt to get Mann, whose defamation suit against me is now in its fourth year, to amend his complaint to the DC Superior Court yet again and this time demand the death penalty - for having the impertinence to publish a book full of what other scientists say about him:

Since 1991, we have successfully obtained real results — not - guilty verdicts, reduced charges, dropped cases or death penalty taken off the table — for every client we have defended against a charge of murder.

I am voting against the petition for rehearing because the views of the American people on the death penalty for child rape were, to tell the truth, irrelevant to the majority's decision in this case.The majority opinion, after an unpersuasive attempt to show that a consensus against the penalty existed, in the end came down to this:» [T] he Constitution contemplates that in the end our own judgment will be brought to bear on the question of the acceptability of the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment.»

Family members must often deal with investigations, criminal prosecutions of the wrongdoers, and giving testimony in the penalty phase of criminal prosecution against the person responsible for the death of their loved one.

Abstract: On May 18, 2017, the International Court of Justice (ICJ or Court) granted provisional measures in the Jadhav Case brought by India against Pakistan.1 This unremarkable order is in line with the Court's ordinary approach to requests for interim relief in death penalty cases.

The Trump administration said it will seek stiffer penalties against drug dealers — including the death penalty where appropriate under current law — and it wants the number of prescriptions for powerful painkillers to be cut by one - third nationwide as part of a broad effort to combat the opioid crisis.