Sentences with phrase «crime punishable by death»

In 1823, the Judgement of Death Act caused a significant drop in the number of crimes punishable by death.

According to a strict interpretation of Islamic Law, a judge decided that this is a crime punishable by death.

Yes, Joe, Anwar Al - Awlaki has committed treason, and treason is a crime punishable by death.

Prosecutors say Bibi, who is a Christian, broke Pakistan's strict blasphemy law by insulting Islam and the prophet Muhammad, a crime punishable by death or life imprisonment according to Pakistan's penal code.

The earliest laws in the New World included witchcraft as one of the crimes punishable by death.

Conversion of a Muslim to another religion is considered apostasy [6], a crime punishable by death (Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia) if the accused does not recant [7].

Those Muslims who disown or even criticize their faith publicly are likely to be accused of apostasy, a crime punishable by death under Islamic law - a penalty enforced by a number of Islamic states, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.

Instead it emerges from two declarations, or hadith, of Muhammad which make apostasy a crime punishable by death.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Murdering a child under the age of 12 would become a first - degree murder in New York, a crime punishable by death, at least in theory, under a bill introduced Monday by state Sen. John DeFrancisco.

A Sinner in Mecca (Unrated) Parvez Sharma wrote, directed and stars in this skeletons - in - the - closet documentary as a gay Muslim secretly making a Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, a country where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death.

But for any of the development team to leave the island was a crime punishable by death.

Private sector coin clipping was a crime punishable by death; public sector coin clipping (recoinage) was considered monetary policy; both caused an increase in the number of coins relative to goods and therefore inflation.

All cats, including black cats, were treated as royalty and to kill one was a crime punishable by death.

Stealing a Pekingese dog was considered a crime punishable by death.

Any theft or harm brought to one of these dogs was considered a crime punishable by death.

Apart from somebody mistaking him for Chuck Norris, a crime punishable by death in some states of the union, we have heard nothing but positive things about this week's number one SD and HD movie of the week.