Sentences with phrase «to death penalty»

The series of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the mystery man.

Prosecutors in capital cases often use these to dismiss jurors because of their views on the death penalty.

Not to be too dramatic, but compare this to the death penalty.

In the city of the attack, in a state that majorly opposes (and outlaws) the death penalty, the remaining jury pool looks rather tiny.

That meant attorneys had the hard task of selecting jurors without significant ties to the marathon or too much knowledge of the crime — on top of ones who didn't already oppose the death penalty.

In addition, 32 U.S. states allow the death penalty for state crimes, according to the DPIC's website.

But whether because of unspecific questions or untruths, jurors who support the death penalty probably won't say they would administer capital punishment regardless of mitigating factors, like Tsarnaev's age and his apparent remorse — even though they might.

For example, jurors who oppose the death penalty will most likely acknowledge they wouldn't impose a capital sentence.

First the judge will hold a hearing where he will formally pronounce the sentence, Ortiz said after a jury decided on Friday that Tsarnaev, 21, deserved the death penalty.

«There are substantial issues relating to jury selection,» Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told Business Insider.

There are a lot of people who are opposed to the death penalty not because they think no one ever deserves to die for their crimes, but because they think the government shouldn't have the power to hand out such a punishment, even when that punishment is justified.

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 Center.

These factors suggest Tsarnaev's jury might have been «rigged» in favor of the death penalty.

In the latter (or, to hear him tell it, middle) portion of his career, those causes have often been philanthropic rather than commercial ones: drug law reform, death penalty abolition, ocean conservation.

Letterman asked about Bush's capital punishment record in Texas, whether there was a «circumstance you can imagine that might change your view of capital punishment» and is there were any statistics to show that the death penalty deterred crime.

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.

Between 2005 - 2009, prosecutors in Houston County, Alabama had excluded 80 % of blacks who qualified for jury service on death penalty cases.

Earlier this year Trump repeatedly suggested giving drug dealers the death penalty in an effort to solve the ongoing opioid crisis.

It's a white lives matter more when we actually look at how the death penalty is applied and that should be very troubling to all of us.»

In light of that ruling, Hurst wants a jury to make the final decision on whether he is eligible for the death penalty.

The price of the Angola 5 prosecution has figured prominently in an ongoing study of death penalty costs by a committee of Louisiana lawmakers, which is expected to conclude by the end of the year.

The Kansas state Supreme Court found Jonathan and Reginald Carr guilty of capital murder in 2000 but overturned the death penalty that the state wanted.

When asked by a local news station about his tab, Boren said he only took home $ 400,000 — less than he'd normally charge — and the rest of the money went to mental health experts, crime - scene reconstructors, mitigation investigators (who rarely get hired outside of death penalty cases), and DNA labs.

It is impossible to know what the cost might have been if prosecutors had not opted to seek the death penalty.

As Stuart Banner explores in his book The Death Penalty: An American History, one of the earliest American - made capital statutes — as opposed to ones borrowed from England — was passed in New York in the aftermath of a 1712 slave revolt.

When you consider the death penalty as a tool of racial control — a way for whites to «defend» themselves from blacks — then Pew's poll results make sense.

Because the five surviving prisoners, who came to be known as the Angola 5, were already serving life in prison, prosecutors aimed for the death penalty.

By the middle of the 19th century, notes Banner, the death penalty had been removed from «crime after crime until none of the northern states used it for any offense other than murder.»

Of the states that haven't abolished the death penalty, Texas has carried out the most executions with 520 since 1977.

Most death penalty cases, from trials to appeals, rack up a large bill for multiple state agencies.

Less remarked on is the disparity in death penalty support, as revealed in a new Pew Research Center survey.

After a 10 - year moratorium, the death penalty became a part of the US criminal justice system again in 1977 when a firing squad killed the murderer Gary Gilmore.

In 2014, new death sentences reached their lowest level in the modern era of the death penalty, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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

Wide use of the death penalty against blacks would continue through the 19th century and into the 20th, pushed by Southern whites who saw capital punishment as necessary to restrain a dangerous black population.

«In 1740,» writes Banner, «South Carolina imposed the death penalty on slaves and free blacks for burning or destroying any grain, commodities, or manufactured goods; on slaves for enticing other slaves to run away; and on slaves maiming or bruising whites.»

Among whites, however, support for the death penalty jumps to 63 percent, compared to 40 percent for Hispanics and 36 percent for blacks.

Before we get into why whites are so supportive of the death penalty, it's important to remember this: There's no separating capital punishment from its role, in part, as a tool of racial control.

North Carolina had similar laws, imposing the death penalty for — among other things — «concealing a slave with intent to free him» and «circulating seditious literature among slaves.»

An important factor in determining whether the death penalty can be applied is whether the defendant is considered intellectually disabled.

Spartanburg attorney Michael Morin, who opposed Gowdy in a death penalty case and later worked for him in the prosecutor's office, said Gowdy excelled at appealing to a jury's emotions.

Other parts of the plan include «Help Those Struggling with Addiction» and «Cut off the Supply of Illicit Drugs,» which is the section that includes seeking the death penalty against certain drug traffickers.

Bradley has been charged with knowingly transporting people who are in the country illegally, and if convicted could face the death penalty.

It's that millennials and African - Americans and a lot of social justice - oriented white people and a lot of white people who are working class really were progressive and they really were open to a message that was things like «no death penalty,» «put the money back in schools,» «mass incarceration,» and «stop taking people's property unjustifiably.»

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.

Moreover, prosecutors pursuing capital cases won't allow jurors who oppose the death penalty.

They all received life in prison instead of the death penalty.

Federal law splits capital death penalty cases into two separate phases: the first determining the guilt or innocence of the defendant, the second - if found guilty - determining their sentence.

In death penalty cases, lawyers are allowed to dismiss any juror who is opposed to the death penalty,» UCLA law professor Adam Winkler told Business Insider in an email message.

And her record in death penalty cases speaks for itself: she has defended some of the most notorious killers in US history - including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Tucson shooter Jared Loughner, and Susan Smith, convicted of drowning her two young children in a South Carolina lake.