Sentences with phrase «who abolished the death penalty»

Her grandfather, Robert Krieps, a wartime member of the resistance, was a «big politician who abolished the death penalty.

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The death penalty should be abolished not for religious reasons (also religious people seem to approve of the dath penalty — which to me makes no sense) but because every person who is killed is one less set of DNA to be passed on to succeeding generations, and who knows what those wasted genes could mean for the future of the species?

One of the strongest arguments in recent years for abolishing the death penalty has arisen, not from the moral prohibition against the taking of life, but from the fact that with rare exceptions those who are executed are people who lack the means to secure good legal assistance, or lack the educational background to make full use of such assistance, or lack the social status which brings the case to public attention.11

And it means pushing Iraq to abolish the death penalty, and to allow those who committed the worst atrocities to be charged with war crimes.

Imagine if the legislature decided to abolish the death penalty, not as the culmination of an emotional debate about who we are as a society, but to save the few million bucks a year that the state pays to endlessly defend and prosecute death - row murderers.

This was used and cited the most often in cases of inmates who had been given the death penalty: from 1965 to 1993 (when the death penalty was formally abolished) death sentences were automatically commuted to life imprisonment under the Royal Prerogative.

If a country decided to put political pressure on the US to abolish the death penalty, pursuing governors, the president, and perhaps judges would be much more likely to have an impact than going after executioners (who are far less likely to travel abroad, anyway).

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.

I was glad to see the state where I practice, New Mexico, abolish the death penalty just as I was happy to assist Governor Toney Anaya commute the sentences to life in prison of the five defendants who were then on death row in our state.

The 97 - year - old Winnipeg lawyer, who is still at work every day, led the fight in 1975 to abolish the death penalty.