«Thanks in large part to the scare tactics of many veterinarians in promoting (so - called) preventive drugs, many people believe that contracting heartworms is the
equivalent of a death sentence for their dogs.
If there is ever good news to be found in statistics tracking the death penalty, it is this: The
number of death sentences imposed in 2009 was the lowest since 1976, the year the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty with its opinion in Gregg v. Georgia.
In the past month, we've seen the
release of Death Sentence and The Brave One, two major motion pictures featuring well - known actors which riff on the revenge motif of Death Wish.
The number
of death sentences imposed during 2009 was 106, down from 111 the year before, 284 a decade ago, and a high of 328 in 1994, according to a year - end report published today by the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization that opposes the death penalty.
«The annual number
of death sentences in the U.S. has dropped for seven straight years and is 60 percent less than in the 1990s,» said Richard Dieter, DPIC executive director.
This is best orchestrated during her exchanges with Lord Burleigh, played by The Thick of It actor Vincent Franklin, a straight - edged confidant of Elizabeth who relays
news of her death sentence.
Also, Mr. Musa said within three months of 2015 the countries of Madagascar, Fiji, and the South American state of Surinam abolished the
practice of death sentence.
Women's Affairs A Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the
face of a death sentence arrived Thursday in the United States, where she was welcomed first by the mayor of Philadelphia as a «world freedom fighter» and later by cheering supporters waving American flags in New Hampshire.
The story takes place as Agnes awaits
confirmation of her death sentence by the high court, a period of time that finds her reluctantly forging emotional and romantic bonds, while reflecting on her supposed crimes.»
Don Watson (
author of Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language) bemoaned that a fashion for «management speak» had entered public discourse, including the language of Australian schools.
If it could be shown that Vick's pit bulls could be rehabilitated, if they could recover from their former world of violence, then perhaps in the future, other dogs from fighting rings would be given a chance
instead of a death sentence.
In the twelfth century, this family had monopolized the
execution of death sentences against payment and the maintenance of the gallows fields located outside cities and villages.
Rather than having a reasonable expectation of a jail sentence shortened by some future prisoner swap, he now faces the very real
possibility of a death sentence the next time his co-conspirators engage in terrorism.
The latest
victim of this death sentence is Aviate, a once popular third - party Android launcher which, unsurprisingly, silently fell out of the race after Yahoo's acquisition.
In brief, Congress could make it financially impossible to handle
appeals of death sentences for states, while providing funds for the defendants sentenced to death.
«At the moment, [the illness] is a
bit of a death sentence,» says Wadsworth, a cell biologist at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver.
2007 also saw the
release of Death Sentence, the Kevin Bacon revenge thriller that would be Wan's first foray into a genre outside of horror.
Eventually, along the legalisation process, Iran's high
number of death sentences, which is a principle side - effect of the country's war on drugs, would be almost nullified.
The Court ruled, in a 5 - 3 opinion written by Justice Kennedy, that due process was violated when Chief Justice Castille of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court refused to recuse himself from Terrence Williams» post-conviction
appeal of a death sentence that Castill had approved as district attorney before he became a judge.
In 2013, a few years after returning from the war, the forty - four year old was diagnosed with Stage 4 glioblastoma, a diagnosis that the vice president said his entire family «knew was the equivalent
of a death sentence.»
Who can say they are 100 % confident that a gov» t made of fallible humans can be 100 % justified in 100 %
of death sentences?
I was convinced I was HIV positive — which in those days was the equivalent
of a death sentence.
But sending [them] back to Iraq is the equivalent
of a death sentence.»