Sentences with phrase «face of a death sentence»

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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.

Tariq Aziz, one of the best - known faces of the Iraqi government for more than two decades, was sentenced to death Tuesday by the Iraqi High Tribunal for his role in eliminating religious parties during Saddam Hussein's regime, court officials told CNN.

After months of uncertainty and trial, the Sudanese women who once faced a death sentence for apostasy and adultery arrived in the U.S. with her family Thursday night.

The Christian mother of five is facing a death sentence for blasphemy.

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.

What that sentence did, however, was to make me starkly conscious of the fact that not only do men die but that I, in my concrete actual human existence, faced death too.

According to background information from LifeNews, Gosnell could face the death penalty, which prosecutors are pursuing when a second jury is impaneled «to determine sentencing under the penalty phase of the trial.»

Christian Solidarity Worldwide says he's being held in solitary confinement and is facing 18 new charges, including «Mofsed - e-filarz», translated as «spreading corruption on Earth» which carries a sentence of death.

He was falsely accused, arrested, slapped, spit on, had His beard pulled out of His face, sent to court where though no guilt was found was sentenced to be beaten to within an inch of HIs life, struck with rods, whipped with a weapon that had sharp bones and different pieces tore large chuncks of flesh off, drug back to court wearing a robe which when the blood dried to it became its own bit of torture, the first beating not good enough so sentenced to die, had a crown of thorns pressed down into his skull causing much more blood loss, beaten some more, forced to carry an extremely heavy wood beam as he marched toward His death, whipped and beaten along the way, had huge nails driven through His hands and feet, and had a shoulder separated.

Mr Raab, meanwhile, wants to make it mandatory to deport any foreigner convicted of a crime resulting in a prison sentence of a year or longer, unless they face the threat of torture or death.

The research, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reveals that inmates whose faces were rated as low in trustworthiness by independent observers were more likely to have received the death sentence than inmates whose faces were perceived as more trustworthy, even when the inmates were later exonerated of the crime.

«I think the combination of no longer living with a death sentence, and then having faced life in prison is going to leave Lucious more ferocious, more calculating, less forgiving than before,» says Chaiken.

These types of policies are horribly misguided, because not only is it possible for FIV - positive cats to live long, happy and healthy lives, but cats who have been vaccinated for FIV will likely test positive and ultimately face a death sentence despite the fact that the animal may be perfectly healthy and incapable of contracting that disease.

However, Nintendo also face a unique challenge in that they've effectively given the Wii U a death sentence by confirming the existence of the NX.

Hundreds attended events in support of Ashraf Fayadh, who faces the death sentence in Saudi Arabia

Rambold entered into a deferred prosecution agreement, so the girl's death is now three years past when Rambold is finally facing sentencing for violating the terms of his agreement.

Murshed began by assisting the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies, writing submissions for about 60 prisoners potentially facing the death penalty, and later focused on the landmark Supreme Court case of Susan Kigula and 417 others, which held that the automatic death sentence was unconstitutional.

Kent Law Clinic argued that he would face persecution on the grounds of his lack of religious belief if returned, including evidence that he could face the death sentence under Sharia law unless he remained discreet, and it would be difficult for him to remain discreet in Afghanistan.

A statement from the dock can be one of the most compelling moments in a courtroom — particularly when the stakes are as high as the death sentence that Mandela faced.

Rather than having a reasonable expectation of a jail sentence shortened by some future prisoner swap, he now faces the very real possibility of a death sentence the next time his co-conspirators engage in terrorism.

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