Sentences with phrase «to face the death penalty»

The first official is still facing the death penalty.

Nikolas Cruz faces the death penalty if convicted of the Feb. 14 shooting at Stoneman Douglas that killed 17 people.

All five defendants face the death penalty for their alleged roles in planning and financing the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Mr. Grose represents clients facing the death penalty in federal habeas corpus cases.

If convicted, Nikolas Cruz faces the death penalty or life in state prison, if convicted of 17 counts of first - degree murder.

A Christian advocacy charity has said two South Sudanese facing the death penalty in Sudan will receive... More

All of these people face the death penalty under Iraq's counterterrorism law.

Cruz, 19, who faces the death penalty if convicted of premeditated murder, is due back in court next Wednesday for a hearing on whether he is financially indigent.

Not every lawyer has the skill to represent a person facing the death penalty, nor the skill to argue before the Supreme Court.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani is being urged to ensure justice is applied and death averted in the case against Ahmadreza Djalali, a disaster medicine physician and scientist, now facing the death penalty on charges of espionage, according to a letter sent to Rouhani Friday by the presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.

The executives are accused of mismanagement that resulted in severe losses for the oil firm, and some could reportedly face the death penalty.

And while apostasy is not an offense codified in Iranian law, converts from Islam often face the death penalty, Amnesty International said.

You don't face the death penalty for self defense... Framed?

The court hearing of a Christian woman facing the death penalty accused of blasphemy has been adjourned... More

Cameroon teachers on strike in battle over English or French Cameroonian forces have cracked down on protests in the English - speaking region that erupted last October, beating and arresting protesters, some of whom face the death penalty in military courts — under the same anti-terrorism law used to prosecute the journalist Ahmed Abba.

A British resident facing the death penalty in Guantanamo Bay has made a last ditch plea to Gordon Brown to intervene in his case.

Convicts who have scores below a certain number can not be put to death, but with this IQ inflation over time more convicts will face the death penalty unless IQ scores are standardized across different tests and time frames.

A young man faces the death penalty for murdering his girlfriends parents.

An Australian could face the death penalty after he was caught trying to smuggle crystal methamphetamine into the Indonesian resort island of Bali, an official has said.

ABC aired the first episode of The Fugitive in September 1963, dramatizing the saga of Dr. Richard Kimble, a fictional physician who escaped custody while facing the death penalty for the brutal murder of his wife.

She is currently serving as Capital Resource Counsel based at FDSDI but collaborating with attorneys representing clients facing the death penalty around the country.

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.

The adoption of the Infanticide Act, 1922 was intended to remedy the fact that judges and juries were reticent to convict a mother who killed her newborn of murder since she necessarily faced the death penalty... It was thought to be a crime mostly committed by «illegitimate mothers» trying to hide their shame, a motive which the general opinion thought lessened the heinousness of the crime.

«Trial by Jury or by Military Tribunal for Accused Terrorist Detainees Facing the Death Penalty?

Selecting a jury for a client facing the death penalty presents challenges different from any other criminal or civil case.

His lawyer has said Cruz will plead guilty in return for a life prison sentence, rather than possibly facing the death penalty.

Cruz could face the death penalty if convicted of 17 counts of premeditated murder in the Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

A Christian advocacy charity has said two South Sudanese facing the death penalty in Sudan will receive a judge's verdict on August 5th.

Abu Bakar Ba'asyir could face the death penalty under fresh charges, which include planning and / or inciting a terrorist act and involvement in a paramilitary training camp discovered last February in Aceh province.

Rev Kuwa Shamal Abazmam Kurri who faced the death penalty or life imprisonment was acquitted of all charges in January, while Christian aid worker Jasek from the Czech Republic received a presidential pardon and left Sudan in February.

Abba's lawyer, Clement Nakong, told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that Abba, who has been jailed since July 2015 in relation to his reporting on the regional armed group Boko Haram, could face the death penalty on the first charge and a maximum of five years in prison on the second charge at a sentencing hearing scheduled for April 24.

Should Cruz face the death penalty and all the financial and emotional burdens that entails?

Fifteen Pakistani Christians are currently believed to be facing the death penalty for blasphemy, including Sawan Masih, whose alleged blasphemy during a conversation with a Muslim friend in March 2013 resulted in the looting and torching of hundreds of homes within the predominantly Christian Joseph Colony in which he lived.

Since returning to North Carolina, he has held a number of positions including Assistant Capital Defender with the North Carolina Office of the Capital Defender where he represented indigent clients facing the death penalty, and Assistant Public Defender, where he defended felony cases.

Dzhokhar now awaits trial and is facing the death penalty in Massachusetts.

Bradley has been charged with knowingly transporting people who are in the country illegally, and if convicted could face the death penalty.

His older brother, Nikolas Cruz, 19, is facing the death penalty for the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High that killed 17 students and employees.

A prosecutor announced he will face the death penalty.

Nikolas Cruz is facing the death penalty if he's convicted, but Zachary Cruz faced a maximum of 60 days in jail and a fine of $ 500.

He faces the death penalty if convicted, but his public defender Melisa McNeill has said he would plead guilty in return for a life prison sentence.

For example, a slave fleeing from the rule of a harsh master could claim asylum by laying hold of an imperial statue, as could others in need of protection, and anyone damaging a statue of an emperor or treating it with disrespect (by, for example, urinating in its vicinity) could face the death penalty.

Some refugees believe they have a better chance at asylum if they become Christian; forcing them to return to places like Iran and Afghanistan — where converts can face the death penalty — would threaten their lives.

In the Islamic Republic of Iran, a Muslim who converts to another faith can face the death penalty.

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.»

Right on the heels of the final release of Youcef Nadarkhani, a Church of Iran pastor who was imprisoned for three years, another Iranian - born pastor could face the death penalty for converting to Christianity from Islam.

I turned intentionally to a life of crime at age twelve and found myself facing the death penalty at age twenty for offenses including conspiracies to commit bank robberies, hijackings, and homicide, and then, after a merciful and undeserved reprieve from God, spent ten years in America's worst prison trying to figure out, among other things, the nature of punishment — and «Saving Punishment» by Stephen Webb is certainly the best meditation I've come across on the subject.

They have written to the Ecuadorian government urging them to grant the accused protection because they believe he could face the death penalty in the US if found guilty under the Espionage Act.