Sentences with phrase «appeals of death sentences»

That could steer money away from appeals of death sentences for poor defendants.

In brief, Congress could make it financially impossible to handle appeals of death sentences for states, while providing funds for the defendants sentenced to death.

The Court ruled, in a 5 - 3 opinion written by Justice Kennedy, that due process was violated when Chief Justice Castille of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court refused to recuse himself from Terrence Williams» post-conviction appeal of a death sentence that Castill had approved as district attorney before he became a judge.

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The Pakistani High Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal from mother - of - five Asia Bibi, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy inAppeal has rejected an appeal from mother - of - five Asia Bibi, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy inappeal from mother - of - five Asia Bibi, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2010.

The London - born toddler's mother, 26 - year - old Sindyann Regis, was jailed for 40 months for allowing the death of a child but had her sentence reduced to 28 months on appeal.

The Supreme Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday has slated February 26, 2016 for judgment in the appeal filed by the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Reverend King challenging the judgement of a Lagos High Court sentencing him to death by hanging.

The Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced Djalali to death on Oct. 21 and gave him 20 days to file an appeal of the sentence, according to Amnesty International.

Last week we talked about the importance of having an aesthetically appealing book cover, and how a homemade cover can be a death sentence for your book.

The panel would give the owners of dangerous dogs a chance to appeal death sentences for their animals.

This painting depicts the last day of Roger Casement's appeal against the sentence of death for treason before five judges of the Court of Criminal Appeal in Lappeal against the sentence of death for treason before five judges of the Court of Criminal Appeal in LAppeal in London.

Honken's death sentence is currently on appeal to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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A death penalty opponent, Feingold said: «I found a person who actually thought about it deeply, who was troubled by innocent people being sentenced to death, and who gave particular concern to how those cases were handled as a Court of Appeals judge.»

The only target of a DCP sentence is the previously convicted terrorist — someone for whom a death penalty has already been determined appropriate by a court of law at the conclusion of a fair trial and the expiry of all appeals.

It is also the stage of an appeal where all prisoners, except those sentenced to death, lose their right to a state - appointed lawyer.

In this case, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of a sentencing judge to reject a joint submission for a two year sentence for an accused convicted of impaired driving causing death and upheld the sentence imposed of two years and eight months; noting, however, that a sentence of no less than four years ought to have been imposed: R v Gibson, 2015 ABCA 41 (CanLII).

In R. v. Kazenelson, the Ontario Court of Appeal recently upheld the conviction and the sentence imposed on a project manager who had been found guilty under the Criminal Code for criminal negligence causing death and criminal negligence causing bodily harm, arising from the collapse of a swing stage in 2009.

Executions typically follow death sentences in the United States by ten years or so, because it takes about ten years to complete a full set of direct appeals all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, a state collateral attack with appeals of that ruling all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (if relief is denied) and finally a federal habeas corpus petition with appeals of that ruling all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

She represented a man convicted of murdering a taxi driver in a robbery gone wrong, in his appeal against the death sentence in 2012.

And while it does invoke some arguments that appeal to considerations of dignity and justice — the risk that innocents will be put to death if the the death sentence is applied, and the irremediable cruelty of the «death row phenomenon» — its makes them look as though they are almost secondary.