Sentences with phrase «for crimes in states»

Not exact matches

Eastern State Penitentiary has a 16 - foot - high bar graph, showing the dramatic jump in the prison population, due to expanded definitions of crimes and longer, mandatory sentencing for nonviolent offenses, notes Sean Kelley, Eastern State senior vice president.

The 13th constitutional amendment was ratified in 1865 and stated: «Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.»

In addition, 32 U.S. states allow the death penalty for state crimes, according to the DPIC's website.

Accused of genocide in the country's Darfur region, al - Bashir is officially listed as a sponsor of terror by the United States and wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity.

With more than 40 years of experience helping restore men and women behind bars, Prison Fellowship advocates for federal and state criminal justice reforms that transform those responsible for crime, validate victims, and encourage communities to play a role in creating a safe, redemptive, and just society.

«The typical state prosecution is for a standard common - law crime,» explains Philip A. Feigin, an attorney with Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons in Denver and a former commissioner of the Colorado Securities Division.

According to a new Bankrate survey out Monday, the Grand Canyon state is home to three of the country's best cities for retirees, ranked by metrics like cost of living, weather, crime rate, health care, taxes, walkability and the well - being of seniors living in the area.

In today's environment, there are an abundance of well - funded and sophisticated hacking groups out there, many with nation - state or organized crime affiliations and interests, who are looking for any way possible to defraud or steal information from American business interests.

In a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic and Republican leaders of the state House and Senate Wednesday, Schneiderman asked state lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow for prosecuting people on the state level for the exact crimes they were convicted of — and pardoned for — on the federal level.

Yaniv Erlich, a geneticist at Columbia University, was far from surprised at last week's news that police may have found a serial murderer and rapist, California's long - sought Golden State Killer, by tapping a public DNA database to match crime scene DNA: Erlich had cautioned in a June 2014 article about genetic privacy, published in Nature Reviews Genetics, that GEDmatch, the website that was reportedly used, could allow for such «genealogical triangulation.»

For example, Barack Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder — the chief enforcer and prosecutor in the United States — said with regard to the obvious crimes committed by the big Wall Street banks: some banks are too large to prosecute.

The Enrollment Program also authorizes a superior court to have jurisdiction over enrollees by allowing it to «appoint a receiver, monitor, conservator, or other designated fiduciary or officer of the court for a defendant or the defendant's assets,» as well as authorizes the Commissioner of Business Oversight to «include in civil actions claims for ancillary relief, including restitution and disgorgement, on behalf of a person injured, as well as attorney's fees and costs, and civil penalties of up to $ 25,000» for up to four years after the purported violation occurred and «refer evidence regarding violations of the bill's provisions to the Attorney General, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedings.»

This pipeline makes it impossible for states to stop the flow of guns used in crimes within their borders, since the root of the problem lies in other jurisdictions.

Not only can I not marry my partner, but I can be evicted and fired for being gay in this state and there are no hate crime laws on the books in this state protecting gays and lesbians (and until October 28, 2009 there were none on a federal level either).

In 2011, President Obama announced that «for the first time ever the Department of Homeland Security has prioritized the removal of people who have been convicted of crimes in the United States.&raquIn 2011, President Obama announced that «for the first time ever the Department of Homeland Security has prioritized the removal of people who have been convicted of crimes in the United States.&raquin the United States.»

The major element in this innovation was the unusual legislation that Augustus initiated that, although aimed primarily at the elite, for the first time made «the private life of virtually every Roman... a matter of the state's concern and regulation», with the state taking upon itself the unusual role of not only arbiter but also prosecutor for crimes of immorality, crimes in which it had previously had no interest.

The application of these principles in the United States would be relatively easy if the criminal justice system operated such that those guilty of capital crimes remained behind bars for life.

Considering the history of conflicts between Church and State, it would seem more prudent for Christians, Jews, and others of good will to take the position that the death penalty is justified as long as it is carried out by a lawful sovereign, not inflicted in a cruel and unusual manner, and imposed only on those convicted of heinous crimes by due process of law.

However, individuals, collectives and states that have defined themselves as communist have committed crimes in the name of communist ideology, or without naming communism as the direct source of motivation for their crimes.»

Such groups have claimed that federal hate crimes laws will silence preachers, ignoring those laws» robust protections for free speech and religious expression, as well as the experience in the many states with such protections already in place.

State and federal courts and mediators are dealing with hundreds of Native American land claims, and indigenous tribes in the U.S. and Canada have filed suits demanding reparations for various crimes, such as the abuse of students in parochial and government - run schools.

Such a State is thrown back on positive law, which is purely relativistic, and can cause serious problems — for example, the newly unified Germany had great difficulty in prosecuting Erich Honecker for his crimes, since they were not illegal under the old system of the DDR.

Ten years earlier, in Bowers v. Hardwick, the Court had upheld the power of a state to make sodomy a crime; but now, as Justice Scalia pointed out, the Court was willing to strike down a law merely for «disfavoring homosexual conduct.»

Like in certain Arab states where Ahmadi Muslims are incarcerated and deported for the crime of being an Ahmadi Muslim.

and hold criminals responsible for crimes (including the death penalty for murder in all 50 states).

It covers every facet of human relationships; it spells out punishment for crime; it states the way children, servants, and animals are to be treated; it gives directions in intimate detail for worship, sacrifice, burnt offering, dressing the altar, and a thousand other details.

The Council on American - Islamic Relations in Kansas is asking for Purinton to be charged with a hate crime both federally and at the state level «in order to send a strong message that violence targeting religious or ethnic minorities will not be tolerated.»

Tony Alamo — foudner, Tony Alamo Christian Ministries — 75 years in prison for transporting minors across state lines for se - xual purposes, se - xual assault, sundry other crimes.

That isn't what the Hebrew indicates and even if it said, «Thou shalt not kill», one has only to flip a few pages to see other commands that God gives right in that same passage that demand that the state, in this case the nation of Israel, take the life of criminals for certain crimes.»

If those elements of the population for whom crime is an acceptable alternative grow to any sizable percentage because of economic privation or because of prejudice, or if these alienated groups are prevented from finding a way to work within the system, then the whole society will be reduced very quickly to choosing between living in a police state or living in anarchy.

Drug laws have also fostered drug - related murders and an estimated 40 percent of all property crime in the U.S. Ethan A. Nadelmann, whose article «Drug Prohibition in the United States» in the September 1, 1989, issue of Science has been a major catalyst for public discussion of legalization, argues that «the greatest beneficiaries of the drug laws are organized and unorganized drug traffickers.

On 16th October 1988, the Federal Minister for Justice announced the establishment of a National Committee on Violence, a joint Commonwealth - State initiative with a wide - ranging brief «to inquire into and report on violent crime and violence generally in Australian society (and) recommend preventive strategies.»

«In this work, no excuses will be offered in order to justify the appalling crime of sexual abuse perpetrated by a small number of Catholic priests - about 2 to 4 \ % credible accusations in the United States and less than this in the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishopIn this work, no excuses will be offered in order to justify the appalling crime of sexual abuse perpetrated by a small number of Catholic priests - about 2 to 4 \ % credible accusations in the United States and less than this in the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishopin order to justify the appalling crime of sexual abuse perpetrated by a small number of Catholic priests - about 2 to 4 \ % credible accusations in the United States and less than this in the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishopin the United States and less than this in the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishopin the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishopin the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishops.

A sunken - place theology cries «black - on - black crime» while ignoring that black communities have worked for decades to organize against both peer on peer violence and state violence in our community.

Witness, for example, Bill H1728 in the state of Massachusetts, An Act Relative to Gender - Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes, or its Canadian....

Although statutes still in effect in some states permit the death penalty to be imposed for a variety of offenses — ranging from statutory rape to desecration of a grave to causing death in a duel — murder is virtually the only crime for which it has been recently employed.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

It is the same as blaming the entire state of New York as a violent state for a crime that happened in the Bronx.

In many states, including North Carolina where Kelly practices, it is a crime not to report child abuse, so you could be arrested for failing to report.

As the head of state the Pope has the ability to issue pardons for crimes committed in the Vatican.

SoberingThought Do you see the irony in Kansas State's dismissing point guard Mario Taybron forviolating its substance - abuse policy when it just hired coach Bob Huggins (Inside College Basketball, June 5), 19 of whose Cincinnati players or recruitswere charged with crimes as he led the Bearcats onto NCAA probation for lack ofinstitutional control?

After three years at Patton State Hospital, to which a California Superior Court judge had committed him for a maximum of seven years as a mentally disordered sex offender, Watson handwrote a letter in January 1984 seeking an early release: «My crimes (the only ones I ever had are child molest) are not anything to be proud of nor is my history of these crimes something to ignore.

I was shocked and appalled to read that it is not only permissible for women to breastfeed in public in the State of New York, but now also punishable as a crime for anyone interfering in this act.

Along with receiving NYSCA training, coaches must successfully pass a National Crime Information Center check (which looks for an individual's prior criminal activity in all 50 states), as well as complete an application and sign a statement indicating that they have never been arrested for or convicted of a crime involving a cCrime Information Center check (which looks for an individual's prior criminal activity in all 50 states), as well as complete an application and sign a statement indicating that they have never been arrested for or convicted of a crime involving a ccrime involving a child.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has finally arraigned immediate past governor of Benue State, Mr Gabriel Suswam, before the Federal High Court in Abuja, for allegations bothering on money laundering and corruption charges.

The governor also accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of embarking on a witch - hunt of the contractors handling the state's projects in order to frustrate his government and prepare the ground for the All Progressives Congress» return.

If a person is convicted of a crime under the laws of the United States, then that person is eligible for a presidential pardon (except in cases of impeachment).

As discussed here in the Monkey Cage, the state historically had abandoned many of these areas — which evolved into strategic zones for transnational organized crime, especially the illegal drug trade.

«Long ago, the Supreme Court made clear that presidents can not pardon for state crimes — now it's time for New York law to do the same,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

A ten - month inquiry by the home affairs committee called for a dedicated state of the art espionage response team for e-crime, to deal with the glaring hole in the government's crime strategy.