Sentences with phrase «death sentences on»

«Since Alabama adopted its current statute, its judges have imposed death sentences on 95 defendants... contrary to a jury's verdict.

(CNN)-- Last month, a Sudanese court imposed a death sentence on Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, a 27 - year - old pregnant mother, because she refused to renounce her Christian faith.

Oh that's right, he's STILL got a Islamic religion - ordered death sentence on him...

How can these «Christians» judge another human and pronounce a death sentence on them.

In Shakespeare's Measure for Measure the self - righteous villain Angelo pronounces a death sentence on Claudio, who is guilty of committing fornication.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

It was customary to put the name of the criminal and the crime for which he was given the death sentence on his cross.

I figured they basically imposed a death sentence on the franchise back in March.

Death Sentence Aggravating Factor Expansion — Vote Passed (271 - 143, 16 Not Voting) Passage of the bill that would require courts and juries to consider if a defendant killed or attempted to kill a state law enforcement officer, local law enforcement officer or first responder as an aggravating factor when determining whether to impose the death sentence on a defendant.

So the community was stunned when the district leveled the educational equivalent of a death sentence on the school.

Not exact matches

First the judge will hold a hearing where he will formally pronounce the sentence, Ortiz said after a jury decided on Friday that Tsarnaev, 21, deserved the death penalty.

Bangladeshi family members hold up portraits of missing relatives as they march demanding the wages of missing workers and the death sentence for the building owner, at the nine - storey building collapse in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka on May 14, 2013 (Photo: Munir Uz Zaman / AFP / Getty)

A jailer missed the chalk mark on his cell door that denoted his death sentence, according to Harvey Kaye's «Thomas Paine and the Promise of America.»

Countless stories shared on World AIDS Day by survivors and patient family members describe Americans who, ignored by the political class and facing a dearth of treatment options, simply accepted HIV and AIDS as a death sentence just three decades ago.

Not only because more intimate testimony is expected on the physical and emotional impacts of the bombings, but also because the jury will be hearing much more about Tsarnaev himself as they contemplate whether to sentence him to death.

While they opened the trial by admitting Tsarnaev's role, he has maintained his not - guilty plea, leaving prosecutors to first convince the jury of his guilt before moving on to the question of whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

On October 21, Judge Salavati informed Djalali's lawyer that he sentenced his client to death.

Refusing to learn quickly is a death sentence for any David trying to take on a whole raft of Goliaths.

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump will unveil a plan on Monday to combat the opioid addiction crisis that includes seeking the death penalty for drug dealers and urging Congress to toughen sentencing laws for drug traffickers, White House officials said on Sunday.

Antiretroviral therapy has turned HIV from a death sentence into a manageable condition but patients need to stay on the treatment for life, so there is a growing focus on making medication as convenient and well - tolerated as possible.

«He should be brought back from Russia and given due process and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence for having put friends of mine, friends of yours, who serve in the military today at enormous risk because of the information he stole and then released to foreign powers,» Pompeo said on C - SPAN on Feb. 11.

Back in the late 80's when he converted to Islam, he publicly (on several interview shows) endorsed Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa and death sentence against Salman Rushdie.

Raza is not the only Pakistani citizen on death row for blasphemy, though he is the first to be sentenced to death for blasphemy on Facebook.

This is believed to be the first official death sentence given because of something that happened on social media.

Well, I guess death was the sentence for a lot of things, backtalk, flipping light switches on sabbath, wearing wool and linen together, etc..

This point is demonstrated in the death sentence pronounced on the White Rose member, Christoph Probst, by the infamous Nazi judge, Roland Freisler, who said, «He is a «nonpolitical man» — hence no man at all!»

Asia Bibi's death sentence was upheld by the Lahore High Court in Pakistan on Thursday.

There is a direct link between Kate Kelly, a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter day - Saints, who was excommunicated on charges of apostasy, and Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman sentenced to death for her supposed apostasy.

IF the torture law was seen to work, and there was a dramatic decrease in violent crimes because bad people realized that they were okay with a death sentence, but 25 years of electric niple clamps was more than they were willing to take on, then the government could make the case that they enacted the will of the people by reducing crime.

So anyone who sits on jury and condemns someone to death, the judge that imposes the sentence, the guards working in the jail and anyone else who is involved in executing prisoners is going to hell?

8) The sentence of death may be improper if it has serious negative effects on society, such as miscarriages of justice, the increase of vindictiveness, or disrespect for the value of innocent human life.

Islam today still beheads people for apostacy — if not on the national level then at the village / local level (saudi arabia, Iran), still burn people to death for witchcraft (indonesia and saudi arabia), Draw the prophet and earn yourself a death sentence from the Clergy, Write a book critical of islam and get the same deal, write a magazine article expessing concern about the rise of islam in your country and have your throat slit on a public street in YOUR own country...

Of course, later, Shimei is killed under the reign of King Solomon, but in that instance, Shimei brings it on his own head, and Solomon is justified in sentencing him to death.

A controversial anti-gay bill in Uganda, which would give the death sentence to some open homosexuals, is in legislative limbo after the legislature recessed for their break without voting on the bill.

It could» t possibly dawn on them that America would put a man on trial and convict him and sentence him to the death penalty on unsubstaniated evidence and recanted testimony.

(CNN)- A Sudanese Christian woman once sentenced to death in her native country because of her faith arrived in her new home, the United States, on Thursday.

We're told that David was spared his own death sentence by the fact that he repented on the spot.

On May 15, a court in Khartoum convicted Ibrahim of apostasy, or the renunciation of faith, and sentenced her to death.

The Colosseum in Rome was flooded with red light on Saturday to protest against the death sentence for Asia Bibi, who has been charged with blasphemy in Pakistan.

Marie Harf, a spokeswoman for the State Department, has said the department is «deeply concerned» about the death sentence and called on Sudan to respect religious freedom and «approach this case with the compassion that is in keeping with the values of the Sudanese people.»

Of the «alphabet soup» of federal agencies initiated by Roosevelt, not all found equal favor with the publication; it was, for instance, doubtful about the National Recovery Administration long before the Supreme Court pronounced that agency s death sentence (even so, it carried the NRA eagle sign on its second page for many months).

To put the point in the blunt terms employed by Justice Harold Blackmun toward the end of his career on the bench, when he announced that he would henceforth vote (as Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall had previously done) to overturn all death sentences, when I sit on a Court that reviews and affirms capital convictions, I am part of «the machinery of death.»

I had the sense that there was a time when a judge, pronouncing a sentence of death, would say to the condemned, «May God have mercy on your soul.»

In such a society it would make good sense, having sentenced a convicted man to death, to add, «May God have mercy on your soul.»

Athanasius goes on to explain that when He adopted our nature into «closest communion with Himself», he also took «with it that sentence of death which it had incurred... (thus)... from all eternity He provided first for our being, and afterwards for our redemption.»

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.

Death sentences... all on account of Religion!!!

(Eventually the death sentence in this case was overturned on a technicality.)

A Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to death for allegedly turning her back on Islam has spoken... More

On May 15, 2014 she was sentenced to one hundred lashes for fornication, and death by hanging for apostasy.