Sentences with word «heinousness»

We understand all too well the heinousness and brutality of the crimes committed.

And in this case, it's not clear why corporate greed trumps infanticide in degrees of heinousness.

That means definitely that he had a conviction of the heinousness of sin and the need for repentance and reparation.

Here is the point: such an argument against utilitarianism stakes everything on a pre-philosophical intuition about the heinousness of murder.

Even though Alex is a high - ranking fascist, we never see him hatching his evil plans, so it's a bit easier for the audience to put his heinousness on the back burner.

DENIAL An accessible, mainstream account of the heinousness that is Holocaust denier, David Irving's, trial to defend his claim that over 6 million Jews were not murdered during WWII.

Justice Stevens, writing for the majority, wants to make the defendantâ $ ™ s mental retardation outweigh the heinousness of the crime.

Justice Scalia, writing in dissent, has the opposite goal: he wants to show that the heinousness of the crime outweighs the defendantâ $ ™ s retardation.

She argued the heinousness of drug - related murders and serial rape in a heroin trafficking conviction.

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.