Sentences with phrase «for death row»

There are also other constraints on DNA testing that differ among states like only allowing DNA testing for death row inmates, not allowing DNA testing to inmates who had confessed, or those who entered a guilty plea.

Advocacy and public education to end the death penalty; provides peer support for death row exonerees

Counsel for death row inmate in successful argument before Fifth Circuit that new trial should be granted for violation of Sixth Amendment right to jury trial.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that «Justices rule for death row inmates with low IQ ``; «Court blocks protester case against Secret Service ``; «Supreme Court says Mich. can't block Indian casino ``; and «High court sides with police over fatal chase.»

Nina Totenberg is reporting: On today's broadcast of NPR «s «Morning Edition,» she had an audio segment entitled «Justices Open Door for Death Row Challenges.»

Of the two major Supreme Court victories for death row defendants announced yesterday, one was obtained by a solo, the other by a federal public defender.

Although the concept of a «last meal» for death row prisoners who are about to be executed is under attack for being wasteful and unnecessary in places such as Texas and Florida, the practice still seems to be quite common in most jurisdictions.

For this series, the artist photographed a wide range of subjects such as nuclear waste encapsulation and storage facilities to a recreational site for death row prisoners.

My own cats and dog were headed for death row before I adopted them.

The film itself is an adaptation from the real life experiences from Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun whose services included spiritual guidance for Death Row inmates in Louisiana's state penitentiary.

Here we have a story of Paul (Hanks, Saving Private Ryan), a prison guard for death row inmates during the 1930s.

After spotting an internet advert for death row pen pals in 2008, Linda.

There is even a special category for Death Row inmates..

Anti-drugs agency spokesman Slamet Pribadi confirmed authorities were mulling the plan to build «a special prison for death row convicts».

How can we say it's unfair for Iran to execute anyone a mere week after the Supreme Court wouldn't even hear an appeal for a death row prisoner who might have been unjustly convicted?

Not exact matches

If ADX is known as the highest security prison for prisoners not sentenced to death, Terre Haute's death row is «the most maximum security of maximum security,» Dunham said.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

For example, Asia Bibi has been on death row in Pakistan for five years over a claim she insulted the Prophet Muhammad - one she deniFor example, Asia Bibi has been on death row in Pakistan for five years over a claim she insulted the Prophet Muhammad - one she denifor five years over a claim she insulted the Prophet Muhammad - one she denies.

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.

Among them will be Iraq's Father Douglas Bazi, a Catholic priest who was kidnapped, tortured, and shot before being released for ransom and who now cares for 500 ISIS survivors, and the daughters of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian mother on death row since 2010, for blasphemy against Islam.

The United States currently has more than three thousand inmates on death row because so many citizens are reluctant to be hard - nosed about capital punishment for murderers of the first degree.

«Blasphemy accusations in Pakistan are often used to settle petty vendettas and persecute minority groups,» said Kate Allen, UK Director of Amnesty International in December 2014, as part of a plea for the release of Mohammad Asghar, a 70 - year - old British Muslim grandfather also on death row.

There is a large body of Christian literature on the value of prayers and pastoral ministry for convicts on death row or on the scaffold.

Hello!!!!!!!!! How about the government arrests some innocent guy and puts him on death row for a murder someone else did.

For all my well - intentioned advocacy against the death penalty, I'm not certain I'd oppose it if the person on death row had killed my mother or my sister or my husband.

Ibrahim was heavily pregnant when she was placed on death row for «apostasy» and was refused hospital treatment during labour.

They also cared for their comrades on death row: in one instance a prisoner «so much... love [d] the man who was about to die» that he «scaled the fence that enclosed the death - row exercise yard and reached the roof of a nearby building before he was stopped on his way to the death house,» where he «had intended to disable the [electric] chair's generator.»

For example, since reinstatement of capital punishment in the 1970s, Illinois had exonerated and released more death row inmates than it had executed.

I say this having read a number of the things advocates of «pro — life violence» have published over the years and having corresponded at length with Paul Hill, who is on death row in Florida for a double murder outside an abortion clinic in 1994.

If I were on death row this would definitely be on my list for last meal.

If I were on death row, this would be on my short - list for last meals.

Mind you, it was Thanksgiving... but my eating habits were more akin to those of a deranged death row inmate preparing for his last meal... er, like the 20 - 80 rule.

Yet for some reason, despite there being no significant change in terms of the running of the club, people still seem to show a level of optimism that can only be reserved for an inmate on death row (in the sense that you know what's coming but yet you still believe?)

Three miles down the road from the high school is another Marysville big employer, the Ohio Reformatory for Women prison, opened in 1916 and home to about 2,000 women, including Donna Roberts, the only women on Ohio's death row for having her husband murdered in 2001.

The Super Eagles will be missing at the African Cup of Nations twice in a row and the former Wimbledon forward pointed at the country's poor grassroots development for the slow and pain death.

Foreign secretary Margaret Beckett has said she is «genuinely relieved and grateful» that a Briton who has been on Pakistan's death row for 18 years is to be spared.

Thousands of hours inside prisons and on death rows in several states of the US these past twenty five years only confirms it for me: We have largely abandoned justice by largely abandoning punishment itself.

He successfully represented employee benefit funds against employers that refused to pay the pension and health benefits their workers had earned, and he was part of the legal team that won death row clemency for a Virginia inmate.

In Saudi Arabia, a man was sentenced to death «for atheism» over a Facebook post, while others remain on death row.

by the Labour leader, although when she spoke, she decided to ditch the cigs and reach straight for the bottle with her question about why minimum unit pricing for alcohol was «sitting on death row».

especially perhaps the 2nd line... and the line «Before we all go under»... Rows of houses, all bearing down on me I can feel their blue hands touching me All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out This machine will, will not communicate These thoughts and the strain I am under Be a world child, form a circle Before we all go under And fade out again and fade out again Cracked eggs, dead birds Scream as they fight for life I can feel death, can see its beady eyes All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out again Immerse your soul in love IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE

There are about 50 Nigerians serving various jail terms for different offences in Indonesia with about 11 of them on death row

Human Rights Organisation, Legal Defence and Assistance Project had called on the federal government to boost its efforts in fighting for Nigerians on death row in foreign countries.

Also people on death row usually wait for...

The Erie County Legislature approved a $ 1.67 billion budget for next year that slightly reduces the property tax rate for the second year in a row and focuses more attention on the heroin and opioid epidemic that is contributing to the rising drug death toll in Erie County.

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.

«Many of the 8,000 people on death row in Pakistan are there on drugs charges, and at least 123 people have been hanged for drug offences in Iran this year alone.

So the Oriental Nicety sat on death row for two months, costing her owner $ 10 million as the value of its steel declined and the company continued to pay its crew.

After working with death row animals for 4 years I know the importance of adoption.

He told me he had been on death row in Alabama for 10 years and that he is now nearing the end of the appeals process.