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«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.

Not exact matches

Tsarnaev's death sentence, once confirmed at the hearing, would make him one of just 59 prisoners condemned to execution in U.S. federal courts, according to the Death Penalty Information Cedeath sentence, once confirmed at the hearing, would make him one of just 59 prisoners condemned to execution in U.S. federal courts, according to the Death Penalty Information CeDeath Penalty Information Center.

Marco Muzzo, grandson of the company's founder, the late Marco Sr., was sentenced to 10 years in prison in February 2016 for impaired driving causing death.

Bangladeshi family members hold up portraits of missing relatives as they march demanding the wages of missing workers and the death sentence for the building owner, at the nine - storey building collapse in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka on May 14, 2013 (Photo: Munir Uz Zaman / AFP / Getty)

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.»

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But with lots of ideas, such a phase doesn't render a simple death sentence; after being rejuvenated and reappearing in a slightly rejiggered state, some ideas return to pass with flying colors.

While they opened the trial by admitting Tsarnaev's role, he has maintained his not - guilty plea, leaving prosecutors to first convince the jury of his guilt before moving on to the question of whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

«At the moment, [the illness] is a bit of a death sentence,» says Wadsworth, a cell biologist at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver.

Officially, China's Supreme People's Court claims the number of executions has dropped by half since the court resumed reviewing death sentences in 2006.

«He should be brought back from Russia and given due process and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence for having put friends of mine, friends of yours, who serve in the military today at enormous risk because of the information he stole and then released to foreign powers,» Pompeo said on C - SPAN on Feb. 11.

Tariq Aziz, one of the best - known faces of the Iraqi government for more than two decades, was sentenced to death Tuesday by the Iraqi High Tribunal for his role in eliminating religious parties during Saddam Hussein's regime, court officials told CNN.

Dassey was convicted of first - degree homicide, second - degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse following the death of Teresa Halbach in 2005 and sentenced to life with no parole for 41 years — he was just 17 at the time.

In looking for sources of inspiration for the White Rose, Inge Scholl quotes at length the protests from the 1942 sermons of Count Galen, Bishop of Muenster, who forcefully spoke out against the Nazi death sentence for «life which does not deserve to live» (Unwertesleben).

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

After months of uncertainty and trial, the Sudanese women who once faced a death sentence for apostasy and adultery arrived in the U.S. with her family Thursday night.

Bibi's death sentence was upheld by the Muslim - majority nation's Supreme Court in October 2014, reigniting international disapproval of Pakistan's blasphemy law.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide confirmed the death sentence in the case drawing international attention, calling the ruling a «violation of the Sudanese Constitution and of international...

Sentenced to death in absentia after the war, Touvier» thanks to a network of sympathizers in the Church, and with the complicity of high - placed government officials» eluded capture until 1989.

A campaign aimed at saving the life of a Christian woman sentenced to death in Sudan has drawn global support from governments, human rights charities and thousands of individuals.

Sarah Palin and others have started rumors of an Obama «death panel» in which the elderly and mentally handicapped will be sentenced to death as a result of a public option, rumors that every reputable news organization and independent analysis group has denounced as ridiculous.

In Pakistan you can be sentenced to death or life in prison for disrespecting some mythical deity but a cleric can solicit murder in front of hundreds of witnesses and he's oIn Pakistan you can be sentenced to death or life in prison for disrespecting some mythical deity but a cleric can solicit murder in front of hundreds of witnesses and he's oin prison for disrespecting some mythical deity but a cleric can solicit murder in front of hundreds of witnesses and he's oin front of hundreds of witnesses and he's ok.

If for Paul the kerygma means «pronouncing upon oneself the sentence of death and placing one's confidence not in oneself, but in God who raises the dead (II Cor.

Mark and Matthew report that the council tried to get testimony against Jesus that would justify a sentence of death, but though many false witnesses were found, they did not agree in their testimony (Mk 14:55 - 59; Mt 26:59 - 61).

IF the torture law was seen to work, and there was a dramatic decrease in violent crimes because bad people realized that they were okay with a death sentence, but 25 years of electric niple clamps was more than they were willing to take on, then the government could make the case that they enacted the will of the people by reducing crime.

The only thing he can do is to admit that he is acting so out of his own fears and emotions (not to defend oneself in battle is difficult, more difficult than to accept a death sentence calmly); or else he can say that he is fighting for others, not to save his own life.

In October, Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the conviction of the bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, and sentenced him to death.

Five men have been sentenced to death in Pakistan for the murder of a Christian couple who were burnt alive.

An» «angry Father» [contemplates] the disobedience of man in human sin, decrees to condemn [us] to eternal death... Against which sentence of divine justice the Son interposes Himself... so that in His total sacrifice «the Father is appeased».»

«Christus, the founder of the name, had undergone the death penalty in the reign of Tiberius, by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilatus.»

Asia Bibi was sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2010, accused of insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad, something she denies.

Islam today still beheads people for apostacy — if not on the national level then at the village / local level (saudi arabia, Iran), still burn people to death for witchcraft (indonesia and saudi arabia), Draw the prophet and earn yourself a death sentence from the Clergy, Write a book critical of islam and get the same deal, write a magazine article expessing concern about the rise of islam in your country and have your throat slit on a public street in YOUR own country...

For that, the question still is, that if the count recognizes the death of the baby when sentencing the criminal then, in those states how can it not recognize the death of the baby in the abortion?

In Shakespeare's Measure for Measure the self - righteous villain Angelo pronounces a death sentence on Claudio, who is guilty of committing fornication.

The Pakistani High Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal from mother - of - five Asia Bibi, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2010.

The sentence of political death was imposed upon Judah by Nebuchadnezzar in the first two decades of the sixth century.

But before we can fully understand Altizer's call for the death sentence upon all sacred entities in general, and God in particular, we must add Altizer's emphasis upon kenosis, the Self - emptying of God into historical being.

Of course, later, Shimei is killed under the reign of King Solomon, but in that instance, Shimei brings it on his own head, and Solomon is justified in sentencing him to deatOf course, later, Shimei is killed under the reign of King Solomon, but in that instance, Shimei brings it on his own head, and Solomon is justified in sentencing him to deatof King Solomon, but in that instance, Shimei brings it on his own head, and Solomon is justified in sentencing him to death.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Who can say they are 100 % confident that a gov» t made of fallible humans can be 100 % justified in 100 % of death sentences?

Such was the legal position, though in the eye of orthodox Jews the judgment of the native court was valid in itself, and Jewish tradition in the Talmud assumes that the death sentence was passed by the Sanhedrin; understandably, it ignores the role of the governor altogether.

(CNN)- A Sudanese Christian woman once sentenced to death in her native country because of her faith arrived in her new home, the United States, on Thursday.

These «minor» matters constituted around 59 \ % of the cases processed by the Inquisition and rarely resulted in the death sentence.

French journalist Anne Isabelle Tollet, serving as Bibi's ghostwriter, tells her story in Blasphemy: A Memoir: Sentenced to Death over a Cup of Water.

On May 15, a court in Khartoum convicted Ibrahim of apostasy, or the renunciation of faith, and sentenced her to death.

The family of a Christian woman with a death sentence over her have met the Pope Francis in Rome, Italy.

To be a colored body was to be under sentence of death, and Morrison does not flinch from trying to communicate what it means to be living color in a racist world.

Marie Harf, a spokeswoman for the State Department, has said the department is «deeply concerned» about the death sentence and called on Sudan to respect religious freedom and «approach this case with the compassion that is in keeping with the values of the Sudanese people.»

I was convinced I was HIV positive — which in those days was the equivalent of a death sentence.

To put the point in the blunt terms employed by Justice Harold Blackmun toward the end of his career on the bench, when he announced that he would henceforth vote (as Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall had previously done) to overturn all death sentences, when I sit on a Court that reviews and affirms capital convictions, I am part of «the machinery of death.»