Sentences with phrase «death by execution»

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Officially, China's Supreme People's Court claims the number of executions has dropped by half since the court resumed reviewing death sentences in 2006.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a Missouri murderer's bid to avoid execution by lethal injection because it might rupture blood - filled tumors on his body due to a rare ailment, and he has suggested being put to death by gas.

WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a Missouri murderer's bid to avoid execution by lethal injection because it might rupture blood - filled tumors on his body due to a rare ailment, and he has suggested being put to death by gas.

Aaron Mitchell, the next - to - last man executed in 1967, succeeded in mythologizing the liturgy of death by removing all of his clothes a few hours before his execution, slashing his wrists with a razor blade, and standing in the form of a crucifix, arms outstretched.

Within this large design, the violence of the crucifixion and the temple priesthood's highly active part in it are highlighted by smaller touches characterized by ironic reversals: the loyal Peter cowardly denies Jesus, and Joseph of Arimathea» the Sanhedrin member» bravely claims him; the Jewish high priest pronounces Jesus blasphemous and worthy of death, while the Roman centurion supervises the execution and proclaims Jesus the «Son of God.»

In Oklahoma, voters approved the guarantee of the death penalty by a 2 - to - 1 margin permitting lawmakers to proceed with any method of execution that is not banned by the U.S. Constitution and specifying that the death penalty is not cruel and unusual punishment.

The myth was perpetuated again last week by President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Al Mohler who, in response to Clayton Lockett's botched execution in Oklahoma, wrote a post for CNN entitled «Why Christians should support the death penalty.»

For centuries orthodox faith attempted to deny God's complicity in the execution of the word, God's own innocent son, by claiming that human sin was the sole reason for Jesus» death.

It seems to follow» as the Catechism, in turn, seems to say» that if a murderer can be kept from killing again by any means short of execution, the death penalty can not legitimately be imposed.

Pilate ordered Jesus put to death by crucifixion, the most horrible form of execution that the callous Romans had been able to devise; the sentence was carried out on a hill named Golgotha just outside Jerusalem on a spring day in the year A.D. 30.

Some highlights of this collection are Khaled Abou El Fadl's eloquent explication of the complexities and restraints behind implementation of the death penalty under Islamic law; an interesting intersection between Fadl's discussion of reticence in the use of the death penalty and David Novak's review of capital cases in Jewish tradition; Stanley Hauerwas's unequivocal claim that the cross is justice (negatively in terms of Jesus» execution according to human law and positively in terms of the ultimate meaning of the cross as mercy and forgiveness); and, conversely, the claim by Beth Wilkinson, prosecutor in the Timothy McVeigh case, that «Even as a Christian, I felt nothing for Mr. McVeigh.»

Moreover, while moratoria on executions should be welcomed, if they are not accompanied by a change in judicial practice, long - term moratoria result in a large number of people languishing on «death row», a condition which may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

Saddam's unceremonious death was the execution of an enemy by his rivals, assisted and supported by a foreign occupier.

The European rejection of the death penalty, which advocates of abolishing the death penalty in the United States cite as evidence of an emerging international consensus that ought to influence our Supreme Court, is related both to the past overuse of it by European nations (think of the executions for petty larceny in eighteenth - century England, the Reign of Terror in France, and the rampant employment of the death penalty by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) and to the less democratic cast of European politics, which makes elite opinion more likely to override public opinion there than in the United States [emboldening mine].

Still analyzing the circumstantial deaths suffered by the youth in the last two years most especially, we need to take closer introspection of the casualties of the major cases of extralegal executions of unarmed protesters in the South East of Nigeria and in Zaria, Kaduna state carried out by armed security forces targeting members of the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) and the Shiites Islamic movement.

And then the retroactive execution of three young drug traffickers who committed the offence when it was not punishable by death!

According to the AMA, participation in an execution is defined by actions that would directly cause the death of the condemned; would assist, supervise, or contribute to the ability of another individual to directly cause the death of the condemned; or could automatically cause an execution to be carried out on a condemned prisoner.

CED - 4 translocation induced by the cell - death activator EGL - 1 was blocked by a gain - of - function mutation in ced - 9 but was not dependent onced - 3 function, suggesting that CED - 4 translocation precedes caspase activation and the execution phase of programmed cell death.

Given the apoptosome's critical role in the execution of stress - induced apoptosis, these studies provide key insights into the mechanisms by which many, if not most, chemotherapeutic agents induce cell death.

WHAT: Manufacturing just 50 grams of meth in China will earn you a death sentence, so when drug kingpin Timmy Choi (Louis Koo) is arrested after one of his meth labs explodes, he's coerced by police captain Zhang Lei (Sun Honglei) into turning informant to avoid execution.

As an eyewitness to the oligarch's execution by garrote, she's left with two, unequally unpalatable choices: death or Sparrow School (aka «whore school») where she'll undergo training in the art of seduction (also, lock - picking, via montage).

According to the Latest report by Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN human rights rapporteur, ever since Rouhani became the president of Iran, a surge in executions has given Iran the world's highest death penalty rate per capita.

When the constitution of a country and the law of the land are based on Sharia and Islamic law, inequality between men and women, Retribution Law, Execution for being enemy with God (Mohareb), death by hanging (1), there is no hope for condemnation for such actions.

The poet Francois Villon has been condemned to death by Louis XI, and to escape execution, he enters into a questionable relationship with a bishop in the pay of Louis XI.

While the protagonist of Bierce's 1891 story, mistaken for a spy, decisively dies by hanging (despite his imagined escape), Rhodes» protagonist endlessly runs from death, closes in on freedom, then is pulled back to his execution.

Who knows what Judge Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals was thinking when she wouldn't keep the court house doors open for twenty more minutes to accept a filing by a death row inmate's (Michael Richard) attorneys, seeking a stay of execution based on an decision earlier that day by the Supreme Court to review a challenge to the constitutionality of lethal injection.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the case of a Missouri inmate who contends a rare medical condition would make being put to death by lethal injection «gruesome and painful» beyond the pain inherent in an execution.

By virtue of S. 1 Wills Act 1967, «a will shall be treated as properly executed if its execution conformed to the internal law in force in the territory where it was executed, or in the territory where, at the time of its execution or of the testator's death, he was domiciled or had his habitual residence, or in a state of which, at either of those times, he was a national.»

By the execution and recording of a new Transfer on Death Instrument which expressly revokes the prior instrument or is inconsistent with the prior Transfer on Death Instrument; or

Then the Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the scheduled execution of convicted murderer Heliberto Chi, effectively signaling a halt to death by injection in the state until the high court rules on its constitutionality.

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.

In Russia, it is now illegal for same - sex couples to hold hands and doing so can lead to imprisonment and hefty fines.5 In Nigeria, same - sex couples holding hands can face up to 10 years in prison6 and in Uganda, similar displays of affection could lead to legal execution if a controversial bill is passed that allows «aggravated homosexuality» to be punished by death.7 Even without the risk of these extreme legal penalties, many same - sex couples avoid holding hands because they fear the potential repercussions from doing so in front of the wrong person at the wrong time.8 Such fears are not irrational.

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