Sentences with phrase «judicial execution»

What effects, other than the killing in which it consists, does judicial execution have, and how may they be assessed?

In the U.S., the yearly mean number of judicial executions over the last few decades tracks closely with the yearly mean number of deaths from lightning strikes.

Their own rejection of once widely held views about the range of crimes meriting judicial execution shows how little we should trust intuitions (that's what they are) about these matters, then or now.

First, about how to read the trajectory these past three decades or so of magisterial teaching on judicial execution.

I do call judicial executions killings, and I do call them blood sacrifices.

That's certainly true in the U.S., where the mean annual number of judicial executions from 1997 to 2016 is roughly fifty - four.

The Talmud (Makkot 1:10) recognizes this when it says that a Sanhedrin that carried Out one judicial execution in seven years would be called a «bloody Sanhedrin.»

According to Philip Alson, the UN Special Rapporteur on extra judicial executions, «When I visited the country two and a half years ago, I found that the police executed suspected criminals and innocent citizens during poorly planned and counter-productive war - style operations into favelas... Off duty police, operating in death squads and militias, also killed civilians, either as «vigilantes» or for profit.»

And to all: Whatever you think about the rights and wrongs of judicial execution — Catholics, clearly, differ about it — you ought at least lament its necessity if you wrongly think it necessary.

Judicial execution shows this state of affairs dramatically, and so it focuses political interest and concern as nothing else can.

Neither do I claim that judicial execution is intrinsically evil.

Worldwide, 1,032 judicial executions were recorded in 2016, in twenty - three countries.

Judicial execution (or, as it is sometimes called, the death penalty or capital punishment), in every sovereign state that practices it, produces many fewer corpses than does any other kind of state killing.

The attention given to judicial execution, however, is altogether disproportionate to the body count.

The fundamental reason is that judicial execution, unlike any other state action, unlike even other kinds of state killing, dramatizes, always with theatricality, the question of sovereignty.

Shaven - headed Scouser Nuttall recites the standard Ukip talk of going after Labour voters in Northern England but the social conservative, a supporter of judicial executions and opponent of abortions, will struggle to walk the talk..

With a judicial execution like that, the company should be able to recoup its losses from the lawyers.