Sentences with phrase «death penalty systems»

«Before the election, California, Oklahoma and Nebraska all had broken death penalty systems.

And after the election, California, Oklahoma and Nebraska all have broken death penalty systems,» says Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, stating the issue remains much more complex than it appears.

That's why we were able to reform a death penalty system that was broken.

This is the worst case scenario for Texas, because now we know that the problems in the Texas death penalty system reach to Texas» highest ranking criminal appeals court, and yet the judge who closed the doors to justice remains on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Things like ramped up difficulty, complex areas filled with shortcuts, and the same type of experience and death penalty system.

Not exact matches

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.

Yeah, our system is more «just» because we kill criminals because they killed someone and not for their religious convictions, but it's hardly just to have the death penalty in anycase.

I agree that with our current system the death penalty should be stopped, but I'm not against it in principle.

This is important because there are folks who are for the death penalty in principle, but they're against the death penalty in practice (because they look at how broken the system is in our country.)

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.»

Opponents of the death penalty argue against it by citing America (where the system is misapplied, inconsistent and often takes decades before punishment is implemented), or by playing a neat conjuring trick with the UK figures.

His policy proposals included cheaper beer, better representation for fathers in the family court system and a referendum on bringing back the death penalty.

Florida, in its» humane justice system, has 15 factors (that's 15) that could be used to press for the death penalty.

The cardinal used the death penalty in America to illustrate his argument that there were questions about the US justice system which needed re-examining.

Ignorance of human rights permits physicians to be drawn into unacceptable practices, such as participation in the death penalty or design of inhumane weapons systems.

by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).

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Grisham provides a good glimpse into the legal system and the death penalty.

Metagal features classic jump and shoot action, 8 stages with unique environments, 30 different enemy types, boss fights, secret items to power up your character, and a soft death penalty «Gear» system that lets resolve mistakes with less frustration.

«We must have population control at home, hopefully through a system of incentives and penalties, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail... The birth rate must be brought into balance with the death rate or mankind will breed itself into oblivion.»

My chief concern is not the narrowness of the NJ recommendations, but the failure to explore complicated issues relating to how having (or not having) the death penalty on the books (or an expanded LWOP) might impact charging and plea bargaining practices throughout New Jersey's criminal justice system.

In an opinion that once again raises concerns about the state's shortage of funds for indigent capital defense, a divided Georgia Supreme Court has sent a death penalty case back to the trial court to determine if a systemic breakdown in the state's public defender system deprived the defendant of counsel.

Mark MacDougall is a lawyer who is making a difference in how the American criminal justice system treats indigent clients facing the death penalty.

As a result, more young people are now staying and succeeding in school, courts are handing down fewer death penalty sentences, advocates are successfully addressing inequities in our criminal justice system that do great harm, and other groups are leading efforts to protect our civil liberties.