Sentences with phrase «execution of death sentences»

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Tsarnaev's death sentence, once confirmed at the hearing, would make him one of just 59 prisoners condemned to execution in U.S. federal courts, according to the Death Penalty Information Cedeath sentence, once confirmed at the hearing, would make him one of just 59 prisoners condemned to execution in U.S. federal courts, according to the Death Penalty Information CeDeath Penalty Information Center.

Officially, China's Supreme People's Court claims the number of executions has dropped by half since the court resumed reviewing death sentences in 2006.

Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered a temporary stay of execution against Asia Bibi's death sentence.

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.

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.

King's campaign said he would decline to issue death warrants as death row inmates come up for executions, and would seek commutations of death row sentences through the Florida Cabinet.

Surely we must realise that the years of psychological torture between sentencing and execution render the physical pain of death negligible.

WHAT: Manufacturing just 50 grams of meth in China will earn you a death sentence, so when drug kingpin Timmy Choi (Louis Koo) is arrested after one of his meth labs explodes, he's coerced by police captain Zhang Lei (Sun Honglei) into turning informant to avoid execution.

He was convicted of corruption, sentenced to death, and is now awaiting execution.

There were finally, the two peasant boys whose story is related in Gunther Weisenborn's Der lautlose Aufstand (1953), who were drafted into the S.S. at the end of the war and refused to sign; they were sentenced to death, and on the day of their execution they wrote in their last letter to their families: «We two would rather die than burden our conscience with such terrible things.

Obama oversaw several federal death sentences — most famously those of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Dylann Roof — but no executions.

The number of executions and new death sentences have been trending downward for years.

Trump's first year saw a slight rise in death sentences and executions, but those are the product of counties and states; the president and attorney general have little say beyond the occasional federal case.

India currently has 52 people on «death row,» awaiting execution of their sentences.

Most notably, Ms. Gasiorowski represented one of the two capital defendants who avoided an execution sentence in the federal death penalty trial of individuals involved in the bombings of American Embassies in Tanzania and Nairobi, Africa.

Executions typically follow death sentences in the United States by ten years or so, because it takes about ten years to complete a full set of direct appeals all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, a state collateral attack with appeals of that ruling all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (if relief is denied) and finally a federal habeas corpus petition with appeals of that ruling all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.