Sentences with phrase «death penalty as»

Defense lawyers Diane Cuddihy and Gordon Weekes made no argument to contest that finding — the Public Defender's Office has taken the position that Cruz committed the Feb. 14 mass shooting and that he would plead guilty if prosecutors would agree to drop the death penalty as a possible punishment.

(Possibly, probably even, that is because Parliament and the government of Canada came to regard the death penalty as morally wrong, but the Supreme Court doesn't say that!)

Mr. Sessions views the death penalty as a «valuable tool in the tool belt,» according to a senior Justice Department official.

In my capital punishment class, we read Furman v. Georgia's revelatory holding that the Eighth Amendment now proscribes the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment as another.

I'm not sure about the juvenile death penalty as a matter of policy, but I found Justice Scalia's powerful dissent pretty tough to refute as a matter of constitutional law.»

Stephen has strong opposing opinions towards to death penalty as he proudly explains his relief to when his state New Mexico finally abolished capital punishment.

Following the SCOTUS opinion in January, Alabama Circuit Court Judge Tracie Todd struck down the state's death penalty as a possible sentence in four upcoming capital murder cases.

For example, Stevens's thoughts on his opinion in the 2008 Baze v. Rees capital punishment case seemed, for the first time I've seen, to dispel the notion that Stevens is inching toward an absolute rejection of the death penalty as his time on the Court nears an end.

Moreover, such agreements prohibit the imposition of the death penalty as well as torture or cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, also during detention.

I believe he was simply using the death penalty as an illustrative example of a contentious public policy issue with a tenuous link to appropriations... the point being, to what degree does the Governor get to «make new law,» if you will, in budget bills?

«Others classify information on the death penalty as a state secret, making its release an act of treason.»

Even though the 1992 constitution and the statute books still retain death penalty as punishment for certain offences, no one has been executed in Ghana since 1993.

Beginning with Furman v. Georgia (1972), which held that the death penalty as currently applied in the U.S. was unconstitutional, the Supreme Court sought to maintain «a system of «super due process» through which capital defendants could be assured an extra measure of protection from arbitrariness, caprice or emotionalism.»

Others view the death penalty as barbaric, expensive and too extreme due to the fact that there could be mistakes.

To me, it means that while the death penalty as one of God's ordinances was / is still to be issued, it was / is not to be carried out... which is why I can not sit on a capital jury.

«Judge Jones used what I would call moral language in praising the death penalty as a means to help people come to terms with the crime they committed.»

But, like pacifism itself, this absolutist interpretation of the right to life found no echo at the time among Catholic theologians, who accepted the death penalty as consonant with Scripture, tradition, and the natural law.

Sociological evidence on the deterrent effect of the death penalty as currently practiced is ambiguous, conflicting, and far from probative.

When you consider the death penalty as a tool of racial control — a way for whites to «defend» themselves from blacks — then Pew's poll results make sense.

Not exact matches

As Stuart Banner explores in his book The Death Penalty: An American History, one of the earliest American - made capital statutes — as opposed to ones borrowed from England — was passed in New York in the aftermath of a 1712 slave revolAs Stuart Banner explores in his book The Death Penalty: An American History, one of the earliest American - made capital statutes — as opposed to ones borrowed from England — was passed in New York in the aftermath of a 1712 slave revolas opposed to ones borrowed from England — was passed in New York in the aftermath of a 1712 slave revolt.

Because the five surviving prisoners, who came to be known as the Angola 5, were already serving life in prison, prosecutors aimed for the death penalty.

Less remarked on is the disparity in death penalty support, as revealed in a new Pew Research Center survey.

Wide use of the death penalty against blacks would continue through the 19th century and into the 20th, pushed by Southern whites who saw capital punishment as necessary to restrain a dangerous black population.

Before we get into why whites are so supportive of the death penalty, it's important to remember this: There's no separating capital punishment from its role, in part, as a tool of racial control.

«Tsarnaev's death penalty sentence should come as no surprise,» Winkler said.

7th US Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations — judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.

However, the Chinese people oppose abolishing the death penalty because they see it as a way to punish corrupt officials, Muqing says.

The members of the Arkansas execution team are shrouded in anonymity, as they are in all death penalty states.

From supporting projects that I'm passionate about, such as being an advocate for gay rights, to drug policy reform, to using my voice and that of the Virgin Group to shine a spotlight on issues that I believe are unacceptable, such as poaching and the death penalty.

On Saturday, Broward County State Attorney Michael Satz described the crime as «the type of case the death penalty was designed for.»

«Every withdrawal will include an earnings portion, meaning that if the owner makes a nonqualified withdrawal, he or she is going to pay a penalty tax on earnings unless the withdrawal qualifies for an exemption, such as the death or disability of the beneficiary,» he said.

«According to five sources who've spoken with Trump about the subject, he often leaps into a passionate speech about how drug dealers are as bad as serial killers and should all get the death penalty.

And yet, these crimes required the death penalty, just as did homosexual activity.

But, as Cardinal Dulles argued, to bar a priest from publicly celebrating the Mass and administering the sacraments is to rob him of his sacred calling, his lifelong identity, his good reputation, and his sole means of support — effectively a death penalty.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice) Clinton, Cardinal Law), jail for embellizing / money laundering (the topic rabbi) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

Liberals also use Scripture for their purposes, citing commandments such as «thou shalt not kill» (Exodus 20:13) whenever a war breaks out or the death penalty is being debated.

It is to be expected that, as a Christian, Joseph Bottum would bring specific Christian theological arguments as to why the death penalty is wrong.

When, in the great movement of modern liberalism, we demythologized the state and rejected most of the metaphysical foundations of politics, we gained much» but we also lost something, and one of the things we lost is any coherent theory about the nation's continuing authority to enact such metaphysically fitting punishments as the death penalty.

The «narrative» of war is just as substantial, if not more so, than that of the death penalty.

Considering the history of conflicts between Church and State, it would seem more prudent for Christians, Jews, and others of good will to take the position that the death penalty is justified as long as it is carried out by a lawful sovereign, not inflicted in a cruel and unusual manner, and imposed only on those convicted of heinous crimes by due process of law.

In his letter Bryce Sibley suggests that this requires me to reject not just the death penalty but just - war theory as well.

Griffiths accuses death penalty advocates of theatrics, while in fact his whole line of argument is melodramatic, as when he refers to executions as «blood sacrifices.»

However, in other places in the Old Testament the death penalty is prescribed for violating injunctions such as murder and adultery.

There is no such thing as legalized murder, and to assert such is to indulge in the irrational, sensationalist rhetoric which unfortunately so degrades contemporary debate on the death penalty.

In the New Testament death is sometimes represented as the penalty for sin, or it becomes the symbol for separation from God, and thus Christ's victory over sin is also the victory over death.

10) Catholics, in seeking to form their judgment as to whether the death penalty is to be supported as a general policy, or in a given situation, should be attentive to the guidance of the pope and the bishops.

7) The death penalty should not be imposed if the purposes of punishment can be equally well or better achieved by bloodless means, such as imprisonment.

But leading canonists and theologians assert the right of civil courts to pronounce the death penalty for very grave offenses such as murder and treason.

Ever wondered why he stopped killing rival tribes, just as we did, stopped demanding animal sacrifices just as we did, stopped wanting the death penalty for many trivial things just as we did and started accepting gays and other minorities just as we did?

The actual penalty for a forced r.ape under the Old Testament laws was the same as any mortal sin — death.