Sentences with phrase «ultimate death penalty»

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He suggested that the justice or injustice of the death penalty depended on the ultimate frame of reference within which it was used and understood.

What you seem to be denying is that death is not the ultimate penalty for the grief caused to those living and the families of those whose lives were ended prematurely.

(CNN)- The death penalty has been part of human society for millennia, understood to be the ultimate punishment for the most serious crimes.

In the discussion about the death penalty, there is the ultimate moral issue of the right to take life, and whether even the state has this right.

Some highlights of this collection are Khaled Abou El Fadl's eloquent explication of the complexities and restraints behind implementation of the death penalty under Islamic law; an interesting intersection between Fadl's discussion of reticence in the use of the death penalty and David Novak's review of capital cases in Jewish tradition; Stanley Hauerwas's unequivocal claim that the cross is justice (negatively in terms of Jesus» execution according to human law and positively in terms of the ultimate meaning of the cross as mercy and forgiveness); and, conversely, the claim by Beth Wilkinson, prosecutor in the Timothy McVeigh case, that «Even as a Christian, I felt nothing for Mr. McVeigh.»

Indeed, since the ultimate right of appeal in all Crown dependencies, (and in some Commonwealth countries) is to the Privy Council, death penalties are invariably overturned.

As I have explained before, I love the stories where a corporation rolls out its ultimate «death penalty» punishment on a customer: «You can never come here [buy here][eat here] again!!»

You already know that I'm a sucker for the stories where a corporation rolls out its ultimate «death penalty» punishment on a customer, such as «you can never come here / buy here / eat here / Facebook here again!»

Although the BTS and Professor Wigmore remain unconvinced, Chinese government sources are at pains to point out that from 1 January 2007 new laws effectively mean only China's highest court, the Supreme Court, will have the jurisdiction and power to approve the ultimate sanction — namely the death penalty — and that this in turn will lead to a significant reduction in the frequency of the use of capital punishment, and presumably will affect the availability of transplantable organs.