Sentences with phrase «case against the death penalty»

Second, the case against the death penalty is sometimes based on the view that the justification of punishment lies in the reform which it effects.

Not exact matches

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.

R. Scott Pennington is a typical case, insisting in his letter that the Catholic Church is a «defective faith» because it has turned against the death penalty.

But these same people you speak of are also the ones that will say they're «pro-life» but then be pro death penalty (though I'm not against the death penalty myself in certain cases) and usually are all ready to go to war, don't support programs that help these children once they are born, etc..

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

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.

A report in The Boston Globe discusses the case scheduled to be argued today before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that centers on a plan by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to try to get more African - Americans on the jury that will decide the federal death penalty case against two black men from Boston.

A report in The Boston Globe discusses the case scheduled to be argued today before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that centers on a plan by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to try to get more African - Americans on the jury that will decide the federal death penalty case against two black men from -LSB-...]

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.

Among other interesting details, this New York Times article about the case highlights that» [f] ederal prosecutors vigorously sought the death penalty against Mr. Wilson, taking the case from state prosecutors in Staten Island after the New York death penalty was largely invalidated in 2004.»

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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.