Sentences with phrase «death penalty for»

I like how you built debt - free and mentioned that trying to grow too quickly is a lot of times the death penalty for entrepreneurs.

Nikolas Cruz, 19, has confessed to the Feb. 14 shooting and faces the death penalty for the murder of 17 and the attempted murder of 17 others.

Prosecutors in Missouri plan to seek the death penalty for one of the four suspects in the brutal murder of a transgender teenager whose eyes were gouged out and her body set on fire last year.

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the gunman who fatally shot 17 people Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the Broward County state attorney's office announced Tuesday.

- Sharia Law demands the death penalty for gays.

Two countries - Saudi Arabia, and Sudan - still have the death penalty for juveniles, or, rather have used it since 2009.

«It is a complete fabrication, a lie or slander to say that China forcibly takes organs from the people given the death penalty for the purpose of transplanting them.»

Yet a 2012 Angus Reid public opinion poll indicated that 61 % of Canadians supported reinstating the death penalty for murder in Canada, and Prime Minister Harper himself indicated he supported the death penalty in 2011.

I would just point out that there are other countries that have the death penalty for juveniles other than Sudan and Saudi Arabia, most notably the US, though I'm not sure when they last carried one out.

He has played a key role in advocacy efforts to limit the death penalty, helping to enact one North Carolina statute barring the death penalty for persons with intellectual disabilities and another that allowed death row prisoners to present statistical disparities and other evidence to show that race played an impermissible role in their cases.

Within six lines, the Act had moved on to abolishing the death penalty for treason and piracy.

I am voting against the petition for rehearing because the views of the American people on the death penalty for child rape were, to tell the truth, irrelevant to the majority's decision in this case.The majority opinion, after an unpersuasive attempt to show that a consensus against the penalty existed, in the end came down to this:» [T] he Constitution contemplates that in the end our own judgment will be brought to bear on the question of the acceptability of the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment.»

The latest data point on this question is in: check out Roper v. Simmons, a 5 - 4 decision by Justice Kennedy invalidating the use of the death penalty for juveniles, overruling the Court's 1989 decision in Stanford v. Kentucky...»

Back in July, my colleague Bob Ambrogi posted about a blogger who picked up on a actual mistake in the Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana, holding that the Constitution bars the death penalty for child rape.

My favourite entry though is for «fairy» which includes the following note: «In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for «Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge» a fairy, and it was universally respected.»

The question was probably posed to the junior researcher (or librarian) as «How many states have the death penalty for child rape?»

By an 8 to 4 vote, the Alabama jury recommended a sentence of life imprisonment without parole rather than the death penalty for the defendant.

In deciding Kennedy v. Louisiana, holding that the Constitution bars the death penalty for child rape, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's 5 - 4 majority opinion relied heavily on a survey of state and federal law.

«Genarlow Wilson state habeas appeal update Main LA Times opposes death penalty for child rape for intriguing reason»

The Court's first mistake came in the highly - publicized Kennedy v. Louisiana case, where an astute blogger pointed out that the Court had overlooked a federal statute authorizing the death penalty for child rape.

United States Trump demands death penalty for New York truck attack suspect, Reuters Police catch «nonchalant» gunman who killed three at Colorado Walmart, Reuters

ABC aired the first episode of The Fugitive in September 1963, dramatizing the saga of Dr. Richard Kimble, a fictional physician who escaped custody while facing the death penalty for the brutal murder of his wife.

Not long ago a University of Graz Professor called for the death penalty for scientists who did not agree with the visions of alarmist climate scientists, who have dominated the media and public scene with scare stories of super-storms and Biblical sea level rise for 15 years.

Cruelty as entertainment, human sacrifice to indulge superstition, slavery as a labor - saving device, conquest as the mission statement of government, genocide as a means of acquiring real estate, torture and mutilation as routine punishment, the death penalty for misdemeanors and differences of opinion, assassination as the mechanism of political succession, rape as the spoils of war, pogroms as outlets for frustration, homicide as the major form of conflict resolution — all were unexceptionable features of life for most of human history.

It was only last Thursday that the Guardian was reporting on a Californian jury's recommendation of the death penalty for a man who started a series of wildfires that resulted in the deaths of five firefighters:

Jo Nova reports that Prof Richard Parncutt, who suggested that climate change sceptics could face the death penalty for their crime, has taken down the original text of his argument and has apologised.

University of Graz Responds to Parncutt's calls for death penalty for «deniers» -LRB--RRB- 2012-12-27).

Dating back to Hammurabi (who reportedly instituted the death penalty for cutting cedars when the impact of deforestation had become irreversible), societies have been slamming shut barn doors long after the cows have fled.

It will present work from the abolition of the death penalty for sodomy in 1861 to the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in 1967 — a time of seismic shifts in gender and sexuality that found expression in the arts as artists and viewers explored their desires, experiences and sense of self.

It spans the period from the abolition of the death penalty for buggery in 1861 to decriminalisation in 1967 and explores how seismic shifts in gender and sexuality found expression in the arts.

Usually the latter and there is a death penalty for drug crimes.

Please remember that Indonesia carries the death penalty for drug traffickers, even if the amount of drugs is extremely small.

If the insurance requirement is impossible to meet, then that is no different than a death penalty for that dog in most cases, and would be considered an inhumane and unjust outcome that wasn't anticipated by the legislators.

DANGEROUS DOGS would face a death penalty for a second attack under a bill the House sent to Gov. Bob Martinez on Friday.

Modern day technology and little plastic cards with mega logos have been a life saver for some and a death penalty for others.

A Hartford Board of Education sub-committee met yesterday to hear by Kishimoto has pronounced the death penalty for a school that is well - loved by the parents and students of the neighborhood.

maintained that the law is at odds with developmental science in treating adolescent abilities as developing in the same way for cognitive and social abilities, particularly with regard to access to abortion and the juvenile death penalty for murder.

We do learn, though, that the death penalty for witches and wizards is cruel and unusual punishment.

But the aspect that garnered headlines was President Trump's repeated emphasis on seeking the death penalty for drug traffickers.

«There is measurement error in any score,» says Edward Polloway of Lynchburg College in Virginia, co-chair of a task force on the death penalty for the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD).

Some 85 countries still criminalize sexual activity between adults, and eight, including Nigeria and several Islamic countries, impose the death penalty for homosexual acts.

«Non-violence is one of the Green Party's Key Values and the Green Party has unconditionally opposed capital punishment since the party started,» said Don Macleay, an Oakland Green City Council candidate who has been working to end the death penalty for years.

They'll discuss the fight in Albany over campaign finance reform, pay raises for judges and lawmakers, reinstating the death penalty for murders of law enforcement and corrections officers, gay marriage and much more.

The minority leader talks about Governor Spitzer's campaign finance reform proposals, the recently passed state budget, and his support for legislation to allow the death penalty for people convicted of killing law enforcement personnel.

After appearing at an Iowa rally last weekend organized by Pastor Kevin Swanson, who advocates the death penalty for gay people, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz will host his own anti-LGBT hatefest in South Carolina on Saturday.

The law prescribes death penalty for kidnappers.

In the 60 second spot titled «National Tragedy,» the NRCC highlights Murphy's opposition to the death penalty for the plotters of the September 11 terror attack.

In 1977, New York's highest court effectively struck down the death penalty for the murder of a police officer or a correctional officer, and a 1984 ruling struck down capital punishment for murders committed by inmates serving life sentences, effectively abolishing New York's death penalty.

A federal judge in Brooklyn has struck down the death penalty for convicted cop killer Ronell Wilson, who will now get life in prison for the 2003 murders of NYPD detectives James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews.

Article 190 of the current Penal Code provides for the death penalty for this offence.