Sentences with phrase «death penalty moratorium»

This announcement created a de facto death penalty moratorium nationwide.

Before joining IPF in 2006, Mr. Miller served as a project attorney with the ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project in Washington, D.C., and as a staff attorney with the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Since 2011, the Justice Department has effectively had a moratorium on capital punishment while it reviews death - penalty policy.

After a 10 - year moratorium, the death penalty became a part of the US criminal justice system again in 1977 when a firing squad killed the murderer Gary Gilmore.

Jordan just reinstated the death penalty after an eight - year moratorium in December...

Bill Kurtis, CBS correspondent and anchor of Cold Case Files, launches The Death Penalty on Trial with the statistics that convinced former Illinois governor George Ryan to declare a moratorium on executions in his state in 2000 and, three years later, to commute all death senteDeath Penalty on Trial with the statistics that convinced former Illinois governor George Ryan to declare a moratorium on executions in his state in 2000 and, three years later, to commute all death sentedeath sentences.

Wolf restored a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking», in state parks and placed a moratorium on the death penalty within Pennsylvania.