Sentences with phrase «to avoid the death penalty»

(Dzhokhar's lawyer would later argue in court that his dead brother was the main instigator of the crime, in an apparent attempt to help her client avoid the death penalty.)

He and his 14 co-defendants avoided the death penalty as they were all acquitted of murder.

State - controlled media claimed that Kenneth Bae, detained since November 2012, was working for Youth With A Mission but avoided the death penalty because he confessed.

Cruz's lawyers say they will offer a guilty plea in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.

Cruz's fan club also extends to Facebook, with several groups of empathizers forming to talk about his case and how they can help him avoid the death penalty.

Nadarkhani was first sentenced to death in November 2010, the commission said, and in order to avoid the death penalty, he is being asked to recant his beliefs and convert to Islam.

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And Socrates — who in the Crito refused to escape Athens to avoid the death penalty — had argued in his trial that he did not deserve punishment at all, but rather deserved to be treated like an Olympic hero!

Kaczynski objected to his lawyers mounting an insanity defence, although the insanity defence was necessary to avoid the death penalty, absent a plea.

A public defender described him as a «deeply disturbed, emotionally broken» young man who is coming to grips with the pain he has caused, and said he is willing to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty.

The head of the county's public defender's office, which is representing Cruz, said last month there is no question Cruz is guilty, and that the teen is willing to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty.

He is willing to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty, according to the public defender's office representing him.

Cruz, through his attorneys, had previously expressed a willingness to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty.