Sentences with phrase «facing a death sentence»

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.

But if the co-workers insist, and the co-workers are upright citizens reporting the blasphemy for no ulterior reason, but as blashpemy per se, then she is liable to face the death sentence under Islamic Law.

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.

According to anti-persecution group Christian Solidarity Worldwide, three Christians who were facing the death sentence have had the charges dropped.

and they all know (converts) if the government finds out they have to turn back or face death sentence.

AAAS and APS presidents seek justice for physician and scientist Ahmadreza Djalali, who faces death sentence, in letter to Iran President Rouhani.

Once facing a death sentence, CML patients can now expect a 90 % survival rate with Gleevec.

He now faces the death sentence whilst Carl Vitello, his older accomplice serves a life term (20 years).

Will is amazed by his mother's ability to continue her efforts to fund the library in Afghanistan even while facing a death sentence, until he realizes that «she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate.

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.

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

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.

One other weakness would seem to be that it only works as proposed if the individual was facing a death sentence to begin with.

Currently, Kentucky law guarantees post-conviction DNA testing only for inmates facing the 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.

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.

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.

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.

Drivers who cause deaths could face much tougher sentences under proposals outlined in a consultation paper launched by the Home Office today.

He faces the death penalty but his lawyers say he would plead guilty in exchange for a life prison sentence.

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.

Wilson and Rule found that inmates who had received the death sentence tended to be perceived as less trustworthy than those sentenced to life in prison; in fact, their analyses showed that the less trustworthy a face was deemed, the more likely it was that the inmate received the death sentence.

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.

Thousands had been charged, and over four hundred had been sentenced to death, but so far apparently very few had actually faced the firing squad.

How someone can look at themselves in the mirror, face their family and live with the memory that they sentenced innocent puppies to death ------ puppies who had no voice ---- who were born because oh dear lord we can't spay our momma dog and we sure aren't going to neuter our male.

After smashing everyone's face in and taking the throne by force you start holding court, making the big boy decesions for once and possibly sentencing your own brother to death.

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.

While there were earlier reports that Derakhshan had been facing the death penalty, Western reaction to his sentencing has been predictable in its outrage.

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.

Even the longtime confidants — the ones he'd had since college, who remembered him passing out at a party, or caught him falling flat on his face going after a girl, or gave him advice when he was dissolutely smoking cigarettes all day and planning his motorcycle trip across the Badlands — all distanced themselves once they knew he had sentenced someone to death.

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.

Disqualified drivers that go onto cause injury or death on roads will face much tougher sentences from next year — a move which is welcomed by personal injury specialists Moore Blatch.

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.

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