Sentences with phrase «sentenced to death»

He was convicted and sentenced to death.
Roof's brother, Dylann, was formally sentenced to death last year for killing nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015.
Migrant workers Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were sentenced to death last month for the 2014 murder of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller.
Migrant bar workers Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were sentenced to death on 24 December for the rape and murder of Hannah Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk, and the murder of 24 - year - old David Miller, from Jersey, in September 2014.
Two of them — Joseph Thomset and David Lowder — were sentenced to death by a jury of local citizens the following May.
Bentley, being 19, was sentenced to death and was executed on 28 January 1953.
In September 2005, Human Rights Watch urged the Saudi government to commute the death sentence of 14 - year - old Ahmad D., sentenced to death in July 2005 for killing another child when he was 13.
Alfred Dewayne Brown (pictured left) was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in 2005 in Harris County, Texas, for the murder of a police officer.
It is most famously contained in the Apology, Plato's account of Socrates» own encounter with the legal system, the trial in which the older philosopher was convicted and sentenced to death.
A new documentary following three people's experiences with the death penalty features Assistant Federal Public Defender Allen Bohnert» 06, as he represents a client sentenced to death.
Kirk Bloodsworth, a former Marine, was the first person to be sentenced to death and then subsequently exonerated.
, a former Marine, was the first person to be sentenced to death and then subsequently exonerated.
Once their deceit is exposed, the judges are sentenced to death.
If your lie caused another person to be sentenced to death and wrongfully executed, you can be sentenced to death or life in prison.
At Northwestern, he co-founded and served as legal director of the world - renowned Center on Wrongful Convictions, where he represented many wrongly convicted inmates, including many inmates who at one time had been sentenced to death.
Not entirely good for defendants - eliminates the breaking - the - county's - bank argument for the prosecution to strike a deal for life, and the raw numbers for the feds show many more minorities sentenced to death than in most states.
«Follow - up on Third Circuit's big crack ruling Main Do you lose your right to die if sentenced to death row?»
Hurles was subsequently sentenced to death by Judge Ruth Hilliard, an Arizona state court judge.
The Thin Blue Line follows the story of Randall Adams, a man sentenced to death for a murder that he did not commit.
In August 2009, I wrote that hearing the word «fine» from a client was a bad thing: if you hear the word «fine» (as in, «everything is fine»), understand that you've just been sentenced to death.
Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to ten years, or both; and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years, or for life, or may be sentenced to death.
It is also the stage of an appeal where all prisoners, except those sentenced to death, lose their right to a state - appointed lawyer.
The Sotomayor - Breyer dissent references a trial judge in one of these cases who had «campaigned by running several advertisements voicing his support for capital punishment» and naming some of the defendants he sentenced to death.
The case had to do with Jose Ernesto Medellin, a Mexican national who was sentenced to death in Texas for murder.
A death penalty opponent, Feingold said: «I found a person who actually thought about it deeply, who was troubled by innocent people being sentenced to death, and who gave particular concern to how those cases were handled as a Court of Appeals judge.»
Truscott was initially sentenced to death, but this was commuted to life imprisonment.
«Violent separatists» sentenced to death by Chinese court for attempted plane highjacking, Reuters
To date, 47 states have adopted post-conviction DNA testing statutes; some have imposed additional limitations that hinder applicants from obtaining testing, such as prohibiting applications from those (1) that have plead guilty; (2) that have admitted to guilt in order to obtain parole; (3) whose attorneys did not request testing; (4) convicted of crimes for which relief could be sought; (5) who are sentenced to death; (6) who are able to establish a likelihood rather than a possibility the testing will be exculpatory; (7) where there are clear and convincing evidence that the new results would be significantly more discriminating than the results of previous testing; or (8) that fail to provide adequate safeguards to preserve biological evidence.
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In the first case, which was handled by a public defender, he was sentenced to death and in the two which I tried, he received life sentences without the jury knowing about the first case.
Even with fewer being sentenced to death, the number of people still on death row is 3,279.
Nine men who had been sentenced to death were exonerated and freed in 2009, the second highest number of exonerations since 1976.
Afterwards Congress could draft a new law that gives prisoners, sentenced to death, a right to appeal to the Supreme Court.
His former girlfriend, Angela Johnson, who is also appealing her death sentence, is the first woman sentenced to death in the federal court system in more than 50 years.
Williams was convicted and sentenced to death, his appeal was denied, his state post-conviction petitions were unsuccessful.
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.
The Appellant was thereafter convicted and sentenced to death by hanging.
In 2002, Ms. Blackmon was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in Houston County, Alabama.
(Wozniak was sentenced to death in January for two murders.)
In the CLE session, sponsored by the Criminal Justice Section, Stubbs walked the audience through the current state of the death penalty in the United States, how racial discrimination affects who is sentenced to death, and how the diminished use of the death penalty could form the basis for a future Supreme Court decision abolishing it entirely.
There were finally, the two peasant boys whose story is related in Gunther Weisenborn's Der lautlose Aufstand (1953), who were drafted into the S.S. at the end of the war and refused to sign; they were sentenced to death, and on the day of their execution they wrote in their last letter to their families: «We two would rather die than burden our conscience with such terrible things.
Five years ago: Bobby Jo Stinnett, 23, of Skidmore, Mo., was found dying in her home, her unborn baby cut from her womb (Lisa Montgomery was later convicted of kidnapping resulting in death, and was sentenced to death).
(The baby was recovered by authorities in Melvern, Kansas; Stinnett's killer, Lisa Montgomery, was later sentenced to death).
One of the most widely depicted saints throughout the late Gothic and Renaissance period, Saint Sebastian was persecuted and sentenced to death by arrows, but did not die (he was later successfully beaten to death at the Emperor's command).
He was convicted of corruption, sentenced to death, and is now awaiting execution.
It appears that the woman being hanged was a former member who rejected the cult's ideals and sentenced to death for doing so.
You see, Outworld's emperor Shao Kahn was none too pleased with Shang Tsung's failed takeover of Earthrealm, and sentenced him to death.
Just after your arrival, the infant prince is kidnapped, and the queen is accused of dark magic, sentenced to death.
After Ceress falls in love with Orea, they become separated when Ceress is sentenced to death for loving a woman.
A hero in Rome wars, you are framed and sentenced to death in the arena.
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