Sentences with phrase «seek the death penalty for»

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump will unveil a plan on Monday to combat the opioid addiction crisis that includes seeking the death penalty for drug dealers and urging Congress to toughen sentencing laws for drug traffickers, White House officials said on Sunday.

But the aspect that garnered headlines was President Trump's repeated emphasis on seeking the death penalty for drug traffickers.

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the gunman who fatally shot 17 people Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the Broward County state attorney's office announced Tuesday.

Prosecutors in Missouri plan to seek the death penalty for one of the four suspects in the brutal murder of a transgender teenager whose eyes were gouged out and her body set on fire last year.

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We know that the government has its reasons for seeking the death penalty, but the continued pursuit of that punishment could bring years of appeals and prolong reliving the most painful day of our lives.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday called again for federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against drug traffickers who cause overdose deaths.

Perry cut or undermined every bill for the jobless, pre-school programs, teacher hires and never sought to overturn a death penalty for inmates who declared their innocence to death's door.

The mainstream practitioners who were active in the years of Harold's premiership all indicate support and admiration for the way he held the Labour party together, sought to drag Britain into the modern era and presided over a series of liberalisation acts including abolition of the death penalty and the legalisation of homosexuality, abortion and divorce.

Lawyers for the Uzbek man charged in the truck attack on a crowded Manhattan bike path that killed eight people on Halloween said that their client would plead guilty and accept life imprisonment without parole if prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

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Finally, at least one other large firm, Covington and Burling, is busy with a pro bono matter — it's working frantically to spare defendant Larry Smith from a capital sentence, after a jury convicted him and recommended the death penalty in less than 30 minutes, according to this extensive story on Alabama's court - appointed program for criminal indigents seeking appeal.

The Trump administration said it will seek stiffer penalties against drug dealers — including the death penalty where appropriate under current law — and it wants the number of prescriptions for powerful painkillers to be cut by one - third nationwide as part of a broad effort to combat the opioid crisis.

PARKLAND, Fla. - The suspected gunman who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will plead guilty immediately in exchange for a state promise to not seek the death penalty.

Broward State Attorney Mike Satz said Saturday that now is not the time to discuss whether his office would seek the death penalty or make a plea deal for Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old accused of shooting and killing 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Wednesday.