Sentences with phrase «instead of a death sentence»
Not exact matches
Typical CNN feedback that a story about a man sentenced to die for being a Christian and refusing to convert to Islam would bring out all the Christian - haters instead of the death penalty haters or people pointing out the hypocrisy of Islam.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/
«Instead of wasting money and having to wipe herb death juices from the bottom drawer of my fridge» LOL I'm dying at this sentence, although it's true!
Instead, human bias seems to have led a small number of counties to become far more likely than others to follow through on a death sentence.
This legislation seems like it could be somewhat protective of a single juror's ability to utilize jury nullification in the sentencing phase of a capital case to recommend life without parole instead of death.
«Anti-pardons» are also in the news thanks to the great state of Alabama, the lone state in the union that permits judges to overturn jury - mandated «life without parole» sentences and impose the death penalty instead, something judges have seen fit to do 95 times.
His attorneys have said he would plead guilty in return for a life sentence instead of the death penalty.