Sentences with phrase «seek the death penalty in»

Broward prosecutors have sought the death penalty in two cases since then.

They will seek the death penalty in the case.

Broward prosecutors have sought the death penalty in two cases since then.

Cruz did not speak and a plea of not guilty was entered on his behalf after state prosecutors filed notice that they would seek the death penalty in the case.

Not exact matches

Stubbs: «We see that death penalty trials are infected from the beginning to the end w / racial bias both in who is charged we know overwhelmingly that prosecutors are far more likely to seek the death penalty when the victim is white.

(In December, The Marshall Project reported that prosecutors around the country have been seeking the death penalty less often due to concerns about cost).

Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 students and teachers in Parkland, Florida, would plead guilty if prosecutors agree not to seek the death penalty, his lawyers say

10) Catholics, in seeking to form their judgment as to whether the death penalty is to be supported as a general policy, or in a given situation, should be attentive to the guidance of the pope and the bishops.

Beginning with Furman v. Georgia (1972), which held that the death penalty as currently applied in the U.S. was unconstitutional, the Supreme Court sought to maintain «a system of «super due process» through which capital defendants could be assured an extra measure of protection from arbitrariness, caprice or emotionalism.»

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.

The project seeks to focus on the humanity that remains at the center of the death penalty in America.

And now, news stories from the New York Times, Austin American - Statesman and the Houston Chronicle are reporting that Keller's actions have galvanized 300 lawyers, prominent defense attorneys and judges among them, to seek changes in the Texas court's filing practices on death penalty cases.

In the last two years, voters elected district attorneys in Denver, Philadelphia, and Orlando, Florida, who all promised to stop seeking the death penalty completelIn the last two years, voters elected district attorneys in Denver, Philadelphia, and Orlando, Florida, who all promised to stop seeking the death penalty completelin Denver, Philadelphia, and Orlando, Florida, who all promised to stop seeking the death penalty completely.

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.

Among other interesting details, this New York Times article about the case highlights that» [f] ederal prosecutors vigorously sought the death penalty against Mr. Wilson, taking the case from state prosecutors in Staten Island after the New York death penalty was largely invalidated in 2004.»

In State courts of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties we've been involved in well over a thousand cases and tried to jury verdict cases ranging from first degree capital murder where the death penalty is being sought, sexual battery, drug trafficking, violations of probation, domestic violence and racketeering to misdemeanor criminal charges including driving while under the influence and driving while license suspendeIn State courts of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties we've been involved in well over a thousand cases and tried to jury verdict cases ranging from first degree capital murder where the death penalty is being sought, sexual battery, drug trafficking, violations of probation, domestic violence and racketeering to misdemeanor criminal charges including driving while under the influence and driving while license suspendein well over a thousand cases and tried to jury verdict cases ranging from first degree capital murder where the death penalty is being sought, sexual battery, drug trafficking, violations of probation, domestic violence and racketeering to misdemeanor criminal charges including driving while under the influence and driving while license suspended.

These cases have exposed and challenged critical legal and evidentiary practices, including undercover police surveillance of civil rights organizations, the exclusion of prospective jurors based on previous political activities, the use of post-arrest psychiatric examinations by prosecutors when seeking the death penalty, and the exclusion of evidence of third party guilt by courts in capital cases.

Represented a dog owner in a case where municipality sought to have his dogs put to death (the defense was that the dogs were provoked) and successfully argued that municipal ordinance which authorized death penalty was invalid.

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.

Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 students and teachers in Parkland, Florida, would plead guilty if prosecutors agree not to seek the death penalty, his lawyers say

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.

His attorneys have said he is not denying guilt but is holding off on a guilty plea in the hopes that prosecutors will not seek the death penalty.

According to the filing, the state is seeking the death penalty because it believes it «can prove beyond a reasonable doubt» that Nikolas Cruz, 19, was previously convicted of a capital felony, he knowingly created great risk of death to many persons, capital felony was committed during a burglary, capital felony was especially heinous or cruel and the capital felony was a homicide «committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification.»

Florida prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz in the fatal shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.