Sentences with phrase «who faces the death penalty»

Rev Kuwa Shamal Abazmam Kurri who faced the death penalty or life imprisonment was acquitted of all charges in January, while Christian aid worker Jasek from the Czech Republic received a presidential pardon and left Sudan in February.

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

In the Islamic Republic of Iran, a Muslim who converts to another faith can face the death penalty.

Right on the heels of the final release of Youcef Nadarkhani, a Church of Iran pastor who was imprisoned for three years, another Iranian - born pastor could face the death penalty for converting to Christianity from Islam.

Convicts who have scores below a certain number can not be put to death, but with this IQ inflation over time more convicts will face the death penalty unless IQ scores are standardized across different tests and time frames.

To, [what] I thought the most sophisticated level was, one of the doctors who participated was against the death penalty; but he thought right through the problem he was faced with, he observed a couple of executions before he gave any kind of answer, and he felt that, you know, if people are going to be executed, and that's not going to be stopped, that he would help to make sure that this person doesn't suffer.

As a trial attorney, he handled all sorts of criminal cases in state and federal court and he has represented approximately 30 people charged with homicide, including several who have faced the death penalty.

Jo Nova reports that Prof Richard Parncutt, who suggested that climate change sceptics could face the death penalty for their crime, has taken down the original text of his argument and has apologised.

ABC aired the first episode of The Fugitive in September 1963, dramatizing the saga of Dr. Richard Kimble, a fictional physician who escaped custody while facing the death penalty for the brutal murder of his wife.

All countries, Fodden writes, have provisions for deporting non-citizens who commit crimes, and the proposal appears to be at odds with international laws that prohibit sending people back to countries where they may be tortured or face the death penalty.

The adoption of the Infanticide Act, 1922 was intended to remedy the fact that judges and juries were reticent to convict a mother who killed her newborn of murder since she necessarily faced the death penalty... It was thought to be a crime mostly committed by «illegitimate mothers» trying to hide their shame, a motive which the general opinion thought lessened the heinousness of the crime.

Mark MacDougall is a lawyer who is making a difference in how the American criminal justice system treats indigent clients facing the death penalty.

The records list the sole heirs as Nikolas Cruz, 19, who confessed to the killings and could face the death penalty, and Zachary Cruz, who will turn 18 on Wednesday.