The number of death sentences passed by courts also declined slightly, though in the Middle East and north Africa death sentences nearly doubled to 1,170.
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Death sentences plummeted by 90%, from over 300 death sentences a year to just 31 people sentenced to death in the entire country in 2016.
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One of his lawyers, Gan Yuanchun, said he had noticed a drop in death sentences in recent years and had successfully pleaded for reducing death sentences to prison terms in dozens of cases.
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The report said at least 17 were given death sentences.
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Sada said 54 Mexicans were currently facing U.S. death sentences.
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The decline in death sentences is a case in point.
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Others are also on trial and facing possible death sentences.
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The other three were handed death sentences at the time.
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Even when juries rejected death sentences, judges often overrode them.
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Egypt's highest appeals court upheld the death sentences in November.
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It commuted six other death sentences to life in prison.
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Only "overt racial bias" explains Washington's disproportionate death sentences for blacks.
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A consistent statistical correlation exists between murder rates and death sentences.
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Death sentences have dropped precipitously nationwide since peaking in the 22015s.
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The French Foreign Ministry declined to comment on Sunday's death sentences.
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The number of federal death sentences returned since then has tripled.
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It was originally used by monarchs to lift draconian death sentences.
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While Alabama judges have converted death sentences to life in 11 cases, they have rejected the jury's mercy and chosen death in 101, nearly a quarter of all death sentences handed down in Alabama since 1982.
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Last year Malaysia and Thailand scrapped mandatory death sentences for selling drugs.
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Yet lower courts often impose death sentences for drug crimes, for example.
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Although executions are declining, the number of death sentences has hardly changed.
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The Supreme Court last month upheld death sentences for the three militants.
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Both have pleaded not guilty and face possible death sentences if convicted.
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In the 1990s, we had 300 to 350 death sentences a year.
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The states that have the most death sentences have the most exonerations.
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NEW DELHI — India aggressively imposes death sentences but hardly ever executes anyone.
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An even smaller fraction of these counties still imposes death sentences regularly.
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The four had been given death sentences in 2003, which they appealed.
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Typically death sentences be converted to life imprisonment subject to good behavior.
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A South Carolina lawyer, David Bruck, looked into those four death sentences.
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"Under Chinese law, death sentences should be handled very carefully," he said.
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The times, which brought death sentences to so many people like them?
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Otherwise, new death sentences mostly came in the South, particularly in Florida.
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Death sentences are down some 90 percent from their mid-1990s peak.
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With devastation of the health sector, treatable illnesses have become death sentences.
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Under Sri Lankan law, murder and drug trafficking carry possible death sentences.
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In 1978, Bundy received three death sentences for murders he committed in Florida.
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Courts have passed death sentences on hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters since 2013.
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Nearly half of all federal death sentences are from Texas, Virginia and Missouri.
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The European Union on Wednesday called on Arkansas to commute the death sentences.
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Defendants in those cases were given retrials — and all received new death sentences.
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Under Chinese law, the Supreme People's Court in Beijing must review death sentences.
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The state is also responsible for a large share of new death sentences.
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In 2017, India's Supreme Court had upheld death sentences against the four men.
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Many states even in the Deep South had no death sentences this year.
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"All death sentences are hereby converted to life imprisonment," the majority ruling said.
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Individuals convicted of murder, treason and terrorism may face death sentences in Nigeria.
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Birqdar said all death sentences were subject to review by the court of appeals.
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AMNESTY International released its annual report on death sentences and executions on April 12th.
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The Europeans had been waiting to see whether those death sentences would be implemented.
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Death sentences increasingly come from only a handful of counties scattered across the country.
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Of the 24 death sentences Angela Corey has won, three came from unanimous juries.
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Juries in Georgia have delivered only four death sentences in the last six years.
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Zaw Htay also said that 77 death sentences would be reduced to life imprisonments.
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A single private lawyer in Riverside County has 22014 death sentences on his record.
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Prominent leaders in the Muslim Brotherhood have been given death sentences in the past.
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The US also handed down 52 death sentences – also a record low since 1977.
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In 103, there were 295 death sentences in this country; in 2018, just 42.
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Even so, death sentences for citizens of Western countries are rare in these cases.
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Amnesty International also expressed concern about an increase in death sentences in some countries.
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Death sentences were also handed down in 2017 to 13 defendants tried in absentia.
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Alabama is also the only state that accepts death sentences from non-unanimous juries.
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There are no federal or state laws that say prosecutors must seek death sentences.
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States have fewer death sentences to show for the millions and billions they spend.
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Localities such as Harris County, Texas (home to Houston), which used to lead the country in death sentences, are not imposing any death sentences at all -- it has been more than two years since there has been a death sentence in Houston.
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Even with the ruling, the brothers' challenge to their death sentences is not yet over.
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Jurors have rejected death sentences to the point that many prosecutors have stopped seeking them.
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Since 2001, two people have been executed, while 53 have had their death sentences reversed.
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George Ryan — a former neighbor of the victim — commuted all death sentences in the state.
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In 91 percent of these cases, judges have imposed death sentences when juries recommended life.
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Last year the numbers of executions and death sentences nationwide were their lowest in decades.
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Death sentences are not unusual in Kenya but they are generally commuted to life imprisonment.
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He could commute all federal death sentences to life imprisonment or a term of years.
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Because juries must unanimously recommend death sentences in Florida, a single juror could prevent execution.
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The high point for death sentences was 1.53, when 21.5 people were condemned to die.
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As Sheffer makes clear, Asperger would have known that such decisions were probable death sentences.
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Some experts argued that scores of death sentences in Florida could be seen as flawed.
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Arizona, ruled that juries, not judges, must make the factual findings to support death sentences.
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Amnesty International, in a statement on Monday, urged King Salman not to ratify the death sentences.
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Three then appealed to the Supreme Court to have the death sentences converted to life imprisonment.
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During those three days, the presiding judge, Suhail Abdullah Sahar, imposed at least 10 death sentences.
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In 2015, there were 28 executions and 49 new death sentences, the lowest numbers in decades.
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Perhaps we'll have melted into the concrete by then, served early death sentences through global warming.
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It's unclear how many new death sentences could be sought if prosecutors embrace the memo's approach.
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The 'Death Commission', which included Ebrahim Raisi and Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, approved all the death sentences.
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In 109 of the cases studied by the UN, death sentences were handed down, Laurence said.
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The judge listed 27 agents from Kassala, capital of eastern Kassala state, who received death sentences.
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We shouldn't be comfortable with the other extreme, essentially handing out death sentences without much deliberation.
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There are very serious doubts about whether this process eliminates arbitrariness and prejudice from death sentences.
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Tuesday's rulings are subject to appeal, and death sentences must go to the king for ratification.
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Courts in the Lone Star state handed down only two death sentences in the same period.
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Twenty other Nigerians are facing death sentences for various offenses in Saudi Arabia, the ministry said.
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I agree with Mr. Kristof that, as currently rendered, many death sentences are cruel, sometimes barbaric.
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In 15 death penalty trials since 2015 in Texas, only eight have resulted in death sentences.
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The justices returned the case to the Kansas Supreme Court, which may again vacate the death sentences.
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The group said the attack was in revenge for death sentences handed down to thousands of convicts.
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Duval County, which includes Jacksonville, currently has the highest per-capita rate of death sentences in America.
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The logic of Tuesday's decision should call into doubt many of the death sentences in both states.
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The number of death sentences in the United States, at 32, was also the lowest since 1973.
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Death sentences are now handed out mostly in a handful of counties in a handful of states.
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That compares with fewer than 20173 death sentences in the previous six years, according to Amnesty International.
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Long prison terms, and death sentences for the ringleaders, are likely, if similar cases are a guide.
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Since Mr. Sisi has been in power, the numbers of death sentences and executions have risen markedly.
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Eleven death sentences that Mr. Sessions defended were imposed by judges over the will of the jurors.
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Counties impose far more death sentences just as a function of having done so in the past.
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The states that created offices for defense lawyers experienced significantly more pronounced declines in their death sentences.
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But in states that continue to deny the defense basic resources needed, you see more death sentences.
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Only five states this year issued death sentences on more than one occasion, a 40-year low.
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Arizona, the Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the factual findings to support death sentences.
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Egyptian courts have held mass trials and handed down death sentences for hundreds of people, drawing international condemnation.
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Iran stepped up its crackdown against members of such networks in recent years, with arrests and death sentences.
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It will not affect inmates' convictions or their imprisonment, other than eliminating their death sentences, the source said.
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He pointed to death sentences issued in Iran under "vague apostasy laws" and the continued harassment of Bahai.
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Of the 155 death sentences the state has handed down and resolved since 1976, 28 resulted in executions.
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California, which issued more than one-quarter of last year's death sentences, hasn't actually executed anyone since 196833.
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Almost all death sentences come from just a smattering of counties in California, the Midwest, and the South.
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But during their tenures, each either secured dozens of death sentences personally or led offices that won hundreds.
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Texas law allows death sentences only if prosecutors can show the defendant poses a future danger to society.
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The Supreme Court on Monday denied review of a case challenging the constitutionality of long-delayed death sentences.
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After an appeal by the defendants' lawyers, Egypt's High Military Court upheld the death sentences in June 2017.
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It was not immediately clear how many, if any, of the death sentences had been already carried out.
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Although work remains to be done, cancer and AIDS are no longer the death sentences they once were.
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A tenet of Egyptian law says that the mufti has to approve all death sentences before they proceed.
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If passed, Prop 266 would have retroactively downgraded the existing death sentences of all 2776 death row inmates.
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If passed, Prop 62 would have retroactively downgraded the existing death sentences of all 750 death row inmates.
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Mass life and death sentences have been common since then in what rights groups call an unprecedented crackdown.
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Justice Breyer has long been troubled by what he said were excessive delays between death sentences and executions.
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Ms. Ayala, a Democrat, announced that she would not seek any death sentences in her two-county circuit.
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State executions this year hit a 25-year low, and juries imposed the fewest death sentences since 63.
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In Virginia, prosecutors failed to get death sentences more than half of the time in trials since 2005.
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Although several sentences are left to be decided before the end of the year, the center said it expects 20193 will end with 22019 to 240 new death sentences imposed, a decline of more than 22019% from the peak in 1994 through 1996, when death sentences averaged about 300 each year.
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Leading cancer experts are beginning to talk about the possibility some patients will beat diagnoses once considered death sentences.
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In 2017, the United Nations passed a resolution to condemn countries that served death sentences to same-sex couples.
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On Saturday, some Saudis, including journalists at a government news conference, thanked officials for carrying out the death sentences.
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In practice, the death sentences are rarely carried out; more commonly, apostates are merely thrown in jail and tortured.
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We discovered a dramatic increase in death sentences when judges instead of juries were the final arbiter of death.
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But Mr. Rinaudo said he realized that what he was looking at was a long list of death sentences.
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Feature As capital punishment declines nationwide, a tiny fraction of the country generates an alarming number of death sentences.
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At the same time, executions and new death sentences are at historic lows, and each year they go lower.
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Over the past decade, people from Uganda, South Korea, Japan and Kenya have received death sentences for drug crimes.
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Chinese courts have also announced death sentences against foreigners who have been convicted of smuggling banned drugs into China.
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Juries in California, the state with the largest death-row population, handed down three new death sentences in 2019.
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But in 1948, the US government commuted their death sentences, and in the 1950s, the men were set free.
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Now, the only person who can prevent these barbarous executions is King Salman, who must ratify the death sentences.
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MBS has also imprisoned a range of clerics and civil society activists, some of whom face possible death sentences.
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American courts imposed 30 death sentences last year, down from 315 in 1996, the largest number in recent decades.
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Executions, new death sentences and public support for the death penalty remain low, the Death Penalty Information Center said.
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People of color, particularly African-American men, also account for more than half of all current federal death sentences.
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And people of color have received 75 percent of federal death sentences imposed in Texas in the modern era.
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This year continued another trend, as new death sentences were more concentrated than ever in a handful of jurisdictions.
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While executions and new death sentences have fallen sharply, the number of inmates on state death rows has not.
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Between 1973 and 2014, 144 people on death row have been exonerated, or 1.6 percent of all death sentences.
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It's also the only death-penalty state in which judges routinely overrule juries that vote against imposing death sentences.
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DEATH SENTENCES are occasionally overturned in America; we meet a private detective responsible for saving many of those lives.
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The governor commuted the death sentences of 167 other inmates and declared a moratorium on capital punishment in Illinois.
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But in 2017, for the first time on record, there were no executions and no new death sentences imposed.
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At the county level, my colleagues and I observed a strong statistical connection between murder rates and death sentences.
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"This is significant going forward, because a quarter of all the death sentences imposed nationwide were in Florida and Alabama and almost 90 percent of the recent death sentences in those two states were the product of non-unanimous jury verdicts," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
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The Supreme Court just paved the way for Texas to potentially overturn dozens of death sentences The Supreme Court just paved the way for Texas to potentially overturn dozens of death sentences Texas death row inmate Bobby Moore has been trying to convince the state that he's intellectually disabled for 20123 years.
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Backers of Proposition 62 want to abolish capital punishment entirely, reducing existing death sentences to life in prison without parole.
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Shortly after Trump's visit, four people were executed for attending political protests, while 14 protesters had their death sentences upheld.
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"Death sentences have declined by half in the last four years compared to the previous four years," the report noted.
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Instead, courts should "police carefully against attempts to use such challenges as tools to interpose unjustified delay" in death sentences.
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The specialized first instance criminal court handed down the death sentences on Tuesday, U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said.
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Death sentences are dropping in part because of better lawyering, and that's obviously a lesson for the wider justice system.
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Iraq's Justice Ministry announced days later that 45 death sentences had been carried out since the beginning of the year.
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More than 95 percent of death sentences imposed since 2000 were overturned or commuted by higher courts, the study found.
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Iran has stepped up its crackdown against members of such networks in recent years, with mass arrests and death sentences.
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Earlier studies have shown that judges facing re-election are more likely to impose harsh criminal sentences, including death sentences.
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The public prosecution may also appeal the acquittals or the life sentences that two defendants received instead of death sentences.
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The number of executions and new death sentences remained low by historical standards, the report said, despite a small uptick.
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That year and the next, he testified in four high-profile murder trials, three of which ended with death sentences.
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But it was pragmatic as well as principled: She knew that San Francisco jurors rarely if ever returned death sentences.
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The 8-1 decision threw out a 2014 Kansas Supreme Court ruling that had invalidated Jonathan and Reginald Carr's death sentences.
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The judge failed to order investigations into their allegation, and in 2017 the Saudi Arabian supreme court upheld their death sentences.
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Even among states with the death penalty, however, its use is down — both in terms of new death sentences and executions.
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As the Death Penalty Information Center chronicles, both new death sentences and actual executions are disappearing in most of the country.
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In Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and in Shiite-ruled Iran, death sentences often derive from a stern interpretation of Islamic law.
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Mass trials have been held for thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters, and hundreds have received death sentences or lengthy prison terms.
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Now the drug companies are aware of the at-any-cost depths states will stoop to in carrying out death sentences.
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The king will also reduce sentences for some prisoners, including those imprisoned for life, and commute some death sentences to life.
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Yet the dwindling number of death sentences carried out in the US indicates that the option is no longer as popular.
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The prison, 40 miles (64 km) south of the city of Wilmington, holds about 2,500 inmates, including some with death sentences.
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Thanks in part to new judicial scrutiny of death sentences, just seven Texans were executed this year, the fewest since 1996.
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But this is a flawed indicator because death sentences are often carried out years or even decades after they're handed down.
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In 2015, I also noted that the decline in new death sentences had created a widening geographic disparity in the system.
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Twenty-six states that allow capital punishment saw no new death sentences in 2018, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Eler has 15 death sentences on his record, one of the highest totals in Florida, according to the Fair Punishment Project.
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In Los Angeles, private lawyers have accumulated nearly 235 new death sentences since 227, while the public defenders have only four.
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In fact, he was relieved that of the five death sentences he won as a prosecutor, none were ever carried out.
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This year, death penalty opponents are trying again with a ballot measure that would convert death sentences into lifetime prison terms.
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While executions and new death sentences have declined over the years, so have the number of inmates on states' death rows.
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Kemp the Supreme Court was asked to consider the statistical evidence of racial discrimination in death sentences reached by one study.
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Existing law, in other words, recognizes that death sentences should be rare and should be reserved for the very worst offenders.
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As recently as Tuesday, Ms. Ayala's spokeswoman told The Orlando Sentinel that the office was seeking death sentences in six cases.
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Nigeria, Somalia and Iran also have capital punishment, while Mauritania and Brunei have moratoriums on death sentences for same-sex relations.
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Nigeria, Somalia and Iran also have capital punishment, while Mauritania and Brunei have moratoriums on death sentences for same-sex relations.
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The nineteen appellate judges who review death sentences, including all the justices on the state Supreme Court, are white and Republican.
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Executions, death sentences and public support for capital punishment in the U.S. have all fallen to their lowest levels in decades.
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Rural counties have fallen completely off the death penalty map; just a handful of relatively populous counties still have death sentences.
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We now know when jurors hear the whole story, even in death penalty cases, they are reluctant to impose death sentences.
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Its success can also be seen in the dramatic drop in the number of death sentences handed out across the United States.
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Footage on social media showed hundreds of men and women marching with placards denouncing the death sentences imposed on the three men.
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The death sentences handed to Ali, Sami and Abbas were based on 'confessions' extracted through torture, and the trial an utter sham.
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On September 8th an Egyptian court upheld 75 death sentences in a farcical mass trial of more than 700 mostly Islamist defendants.
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Death sentences are also a little more frequent than in the recent past, says Robert Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Centre.
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Jahan's brother, Mahmudul Hasan Noman, demanded that the death sentences be carried out swiftly and sought protection for his family against reprisals.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday against three Kansas inmates whose death sentences had been vacated by the state's Supreme Court.
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Yet Amnesty recorded at least 360 death sentences handed down in 2016, over 200 in 2017 and upwards of 250 last year.
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In January, a trial court handed death sentences to 26 people, 16 of them Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members, for the murders.
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Convicted along with Manson, his three co-defendants, Atkins, Van Houten and Krenwinkel, also had their death sentences reduced to life terms.
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But whatever the reasons undergirding the correlation, death sentences did not follow the same steady decline as murder rates during those years.
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That has involved more than 100 people, many from state-owned enterprises being prosecuted, jailed and in some cases given death sentences.
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This has involved more than 100 people, many from state-owned enterprises, being prosecuted, jailed and in some cases given death sentences.
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The compromise bill would make it more difficult to hand down death sentences by requiring a jury vote of 10 to 2.
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But the Polish underground state and resistance carried out death sentences against collaborators and blackmailers, and Poland never formed a collaborationist government.
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But 16 Islamists with ties to the Brotherhood are currently in prison facing death sentences that cannot be appealed, Brotherhood activists said.
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That secrecy has undermined the Chinese government's vows to limit death sentences, distorting how common executions are in China, the report said.
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Saudi prosecutors said the death sentences were ordered against those who had actually carried out the murder but did not name them.
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Courts handed down just 30 new death sentences, down from more than 300 in 1996, the lowest figure since the early 1970s.
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Prosecutors aren't just seeking fewer death sentences; they're openly turning against the practice, even in places where it has traditionally been favored.
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This will be the fifth year in a row of fewer than 220 executions and 290 new death sentences, the center said.
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The Arabic-language Okaz newspaper also reported that another appeals court upheld the death sentences of 15 people convicted of spying for Iran.
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Last year, U.S. states conducted 28 executions - the fewest since 1991 - and imposed the lowest number of death sentences since 1978, said Dunham.
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New Mexico repealed capital punishment in 2009, but Allen and Fry's death sentences remained intact because they were convicted and sentenced years earlier.
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The question of intellect in determining who deserves the death penalty is why Moore presents an interesting case for inmates with death sentences.
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And while other countries hand out far more death sentences than they carry out, in Vietnam the gap seems to be alarmingly small.
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India's top court on Friday upheld death sentences against four men who fatally gang raped a woman on board a bus in 2012.
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Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday signed an executive order placing a moratorium on executions, granting 737 inmates a reprieve from their death sentences.
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Mr. Macy — the one who pulled a gun on the jury — won 54 death sentences during two decades as Oklahoma County's district attorney.
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Courts in the Libyan capital have issued death sentences against another of Gaddafi's sons, Saif al-Islam, and officials from the former regime.
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"The significant increase in handing down death sentences only indicates that the rate of executions will accelerate in the coming days," said Ghoneim.
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Some arsonists get death sentences Sentences for arsonists depend on how much destruction the fire has caused and whether there are deaths involved.
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Now, Afghanistan's Supreme Court has confirmed the decision to vacate those four death sentences, and nine other defendants also had their sentences reduced.
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According to the state news media in Egypt, in 220 courts handed down 225 death sentences, triple the 2000 handed down in 215.
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Only 22015 states and the federal government imposed death sentences, with more than half coming from four states: Texas, Florida, California and Ohio.
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Of those, five face potential death sentences on charges that they played a direct role at the moment when Mr. Khashoggi was killed.
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Death sentences this year were imposed in only 28 of the nation's more than 3,000 counties, one of the lowest figures in decades.
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Ogg said in an interview that, if she wins, she wants to set the bar for pursuing death sentences as high as possible.
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Her ruling cited research that Alabama judges have overridden jury decisions more than 100 times in four decades, largely to impose death sentences.
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"The impact of the court's ruling on existing death sentences will need to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis," she said.
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The states that continue to leave it to local judges or counties to decide who handles death penalty cases have more death sentences.
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" Reciting data about the reduced number of executions and new death sentences across the country, Breyer concluded that "the death penalty may eventually disappear.
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Importantly, though her essay is applied broadly now, Sontag focused on tuberculosis and cancer, two diseases that have historically been seen as death sentences.
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China leads the world in executions, according to human rights groups, although no recent figures are available because death sentences are a state secret.
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Death sentences are still being handed down, but many states are not scheduling executions because authorities don't have the drugs needed for lethal injection.
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Guinness World Records, in naming him the "deadliest prosecutor" in 1978, noted that he had obtained nearly two dozen death sentences in 28 months.
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Justice Breyer stressed a theme that has long troubled him: that long delays between death sentences and executions might themselves violate the Eighth Amendment.
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The family of the victim greeted the news with a mix of relief and disappointment, having called on the judge to deliver death sentences.
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Although death sentences are still being handed down, many states are not scheduling executions because they don't have the drugs needed for lethal injection.
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In 2015 only 49 new death sentences were handed down, the lowest one-year total since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.
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Some Republican lawmakers are content to sign our death sentences to satisfy their demented desire to dismantle the legacy of our first black president.
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In Iraq, many of the women who once lived among them face swift trials and death sentences on charges of supporting the Islamic State.
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And at the state level, where prosecutors, jurors and local courts administer the justice system, the number of death sentences and executions is plummeting.
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In addition, tens of thousands of Egyptians arrested in the crackdown after the military takeover in 2013 remain in prison, many appealing death sentences.
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"These death sentences and executions are a flagrant breach of international law," Maya Foa, director of the international human rights organization Reprieve, said Tuesday.
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However, states have struggled to carry out death sentences in recent years because of a lack of access to drugs used in executing people.
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Three former ministers, including Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, were executed and 3003 others, including President Celal Bayar, had death sentences commuted to life imprisonment.
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And the migrants they've seized on the high seas have in many cases been sent to detention facilities that are tantamount to death sentences.
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The sentences are subject to appeal, notes the Times, which separately notes that in Saudi Arabia, death sentences typically involve beheadings in public squares.
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Despite the 1976 moratorium, judges in this majority-Buddhist country have continued to hand down death sentences, none of which have been carried out.
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Since 2000, more than 96 percent of Louisiana death sentences have been reversed by higher courts, the Advocate in Baton Rouge reported last year.
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Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members have received death sentences since Morsy's ouster in a government crackdown that Western governments and human rights groups have condemned.
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Hasm claimed responsibility in September for an assassination attempt on a senior prosecutor, saying it was in revenge for mass death sentences against political prisoners.
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The executions came less than a week after Bahrain's highest court upheld their death sentences over a bomb attack in March 2014, the agency said.
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In the nine years prior to that execution all death sentences were commuted, and usually in such cases the sentences were reduced to life imprisonment.
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But China, reckoned to be by far the world's most prolific executioner, was excluded from the tally, because it doesn't divulge data on death sentences.
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Among the death sentences it overturned was, most famously, that imposed on an alleged blasphemer, Asia Bibi, which it said was based on "concoction incarnate".
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The trailer begins by showing Suki Waterhouse, Bacon and Murray's characters getting psychological help in prison after their death sentences turned to life in prison.
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California has 741 inmates awaiting death sentences, while Florida, Texas, Alabama, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio and Arizona are all housing more than 100 condemned prisoners.
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In Alabama, the Equal Justice Institute reports that judges have overridden jury verdicts in 112 cases to date, about a quarter of all death sentences.
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As the district attorney for Robeson and Scotland Counties from 1974 to 20143, Mr. Britt oversaw cases that led to more than 40 death sentences.
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There was also an increase in the number of civilians tried in military courts, and the number of death sentences handed down by military judges.
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In 212, trial courts imposed 227 death sentences -- the highest number in nearly two decades -- according to data collated by National Law University in Delhi.
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Mr. Newsom also said he was discussing with the attorney general's office what role the state could play in blocking prosecutions of new death sentences.
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A second factor is that death sentences are often sought after particularly brutal crimes that create great pressure on the police to find the culprits.
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Iran is second only to China in its number of executions, and the majority who receive death sentences have been convicted of drug-related crimes.
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Moreover, he would risk being immediately rearrested there, and the Iraqi courts have been giving 10-minute trials and death sentences to Islamic State members.
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The government's response to the attacks under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who took power in 2014, has often involved mass trials and death sentences.
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Under the kingdom's interpretation of Shariah, judges have wide discretion to rule and hand down death sentences for lethal as well as non-lethal offenses.
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This week, the regime issued death sentences for three more people who were originally detained during pro-democracy protests at the end of last year.
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The number of new death sentences and executions continues to drop — only 30 people were sentenced to death nationwide in 2016, and 20 were executed.
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Just 2741 of the nation's roughly 3,000 counties imposed death sentences this year, the lowest figure in decades, compared with 60 counties four years earlier.
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Violent riots in July 2009 in Urumqi, the Xinjiang capital, escalated into attacks on Han Chinese people and a vicious crackdown and several death sentences.
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The UN estimates that the Islamic Republic executed more than 950 people last year, with most of the death sentences handed down for drug crimes.
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" It noted that drug offenders are often "subjected to beatings and coerced confessions which are later used in revolutionary courts to secure their death sentences.
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Death sentences declined to a historic low in 2016, expected to drop by 220 percent from the already record-low amount of sentences in 22016.
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Death sentences declined to a historic low in 2016, expected to drop by 39 percent from the already record-low amount of sentences in 20153.
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If any factor explains why some criminals get death sentences while most do not, Justice Potter Stewart wrote, "it is the constitutionally impermissible basis of race".
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Anas Omara, who was next in line to lead the Court of Cassation, revoked the Brothers' death sentences (he would also have chaired the electoral commission).
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Mexico pressed U.S. officials and Congress to follow the international court's directive and require states to review death sentences where people had been denied consular access.
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The state, which tried to carry out eight executions in April before a key execution drug expired, succeeded in carrying out four of those death sentences.
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Instead, it means merely that he has shown a willingness to consider tossing out death sentences in certain cases in which Kennedy himself has clear concerns.
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Some observers criticized the decision to retry Sampson as the numbers of death sentences handed down and executions carried out are falling across the United States.
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An RAB officer, Lieutenant Colonel Tarek Sayeed, son-in-law of a minister in Hasina's government, and Hossain were among those whose death sentences were upheld.
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Catalina de Erauso was a former nun who, after assuming a male identity, traveled Latin America in the early 17th century and escaped multiple death sentences.
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Regardless of the offender's race, death sentences are six times as likely — and executions 14 times as likely — when the victim is white rather than black.
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The caucus also put forward the Racial Justice Act, which would have made it possible to use statistical evidence of racial bias to challenge death sentences.
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She has one of the highest rates of death sentences in the country, with 24 (19 in Duval) in the eight years since she was elected.
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Between 2010 and 2015, there was only one unanimous verdict among 13 death sentences in Jefferson County and Mobile County, both on the list of 1970.
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Prosecutors sought fewer death sentences than they did in the tough-on-crime era of the 7003s and 1990s, and juries handed them down less frequently.
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In the past few years, drug companies have discovered cures for diseases such as Hepatitis C that heretofore had been virtual death sentences for those afflicted.
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In a number of cases, death sentences have been re-examined following executions where people whose lives were taken were found not to have been guilty.
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In other counties around the country, prosecutors are finding that aggressive advocacy for death sentences isn't the selling point with the public that it once was.
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The courts have handed out at least seven death sentences since they were set up and some of the trials have been broadcast live on television.
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Michigan falls to Iowa It seems that there was a theme to the death sentences of the mighty top 4 (minus Alabama) last night: field goals.
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The three other defendants given death sentences on Saturday are Ahmed Afify, a documentary producer, Ahmed Ismail, an academic, and EgyptAir cabin crew member Mohammed Keilany.
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Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said an unspecified number of suspects, arrested less than a year ago, faced possible death sentences in military tribunals, state television reported.
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But Stevens elides the fact that he voted to uphold death sentences as late as 2008 out of respect for the court's previous rulings allowing them.
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But by then he had sought death sentences in five cases, the most by any district attorney in the state since capital punishment had been restored.
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The move was blasted by Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler, whose predecessors secured convictions and death sentences for all three of the death row inmates.
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He is expected to be transferred soon to a federal penitentiary to await execution while appealing the death sentences he received in United States District Court.
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The number of death sentences is falling, too: in 2018, only 42 people were sent to death row compared to some 300 in the mid-1990s.
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As one of the world's most prolific executioners, we know Saudi Arabia can carry out death sentences against citizens who express dissent following seriously flawed trials.
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As had been expected since the end of the federal trial in January, Ms. Wilson concluded that the 18 death sentences from that case would suffice.
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Gomaa is an outspoken critic of Islamist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood and had, in his former role, the final say on whether to confirm death sentences.
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It called on Iran to commute the death sentences of all juvenile offenders and end the use of the death penalty against them once and for all.
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The new death sentences could further deepen resentment among the kingdom's Shiites, some of whom already complaining of discrimination in the predominantly Western-allied Sunni Muslim country.
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A Baghdad criminal court issued the death sentences based on what Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar, spokesman for Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, said were convictions on terrorism charges.
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Since the late 43s, almost every year has seen fewer executions, fewer new death sentences and fewer states involved in the repugnant business of killing their citizens.
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IT WAS 173pm at the Cummins Unit, the facility on the Arkansas plains where death sentences are supposed to be carried out, and the clock was ticking.
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Those executed were among more than 20 people on death row in the eastern province, but it was not immediately clear when the death sentences were issued.
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This compared with 530 executions in 2016, but Guterres said he remained "alarmed by the high number" of executions and death sentences issued by Iran's Revolutionary Courts.
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Since the executions were announced, a number of successful legal challenges have blocked three men's death sentences from being carried out so far, according to NBC News.
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These service providers may have worried about the installation of Jeff Sessions—who once supported death sentences for twice-convicted drug traffickers in Alabama—as attorney-general.
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Saudi officials have said that the increase reflects a backlog of death sentences that had built up in the final years of the previous monarch, King Abdullah.
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Death sentences were passed on mentally disabled people and suspects who were minors at the time of the crime, and the method of execution amounted to torture.
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For the issuing of death sentences to amount to a crime against humanity, they would have to be part of a systematic attack on a civilian population.
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Cities like Houston and Philadelphia that once handed down dozens of death sentences have recently seen the election of district attorneys who are more skeptical of it.
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Mary Christine Andrews, New York RE: DEATH PENALTY Emily Bazelon wrote about the tiny fraction of the nation's counties that generates an alarming number of death sentences.
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Gomaa is an outspoken critic of Islamist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, and in his previous job had the final say on whether to confirm death sentences.
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Death sentences and executions have declined in the last two decades -- from 295 sentences in 1998 to 39 last year -- according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Elected judges hand out longer sentences the closer they are to re-election and are less than half as likely as appointed judges to reverse death sentences.
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This year, for the first time in the modern history of the death penalty, no single county in the United States imposed more than two death sentences.
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In almost a dozen of the 30 counties with the highest pace of death sentences, prosecutors have been voted out of office since 2015, Mr. Dunham said.
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Human rights groups say that the military trials are unfair to defendants and that death sentences are being handed out indiscriminately as a deterrent to further attacks.
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RABAT (Reuters) - A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December.
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In Harris County and other district attorney offices across the country, prosecutors have increasingly sought life in prison without the possibility of parole instead of death sentences.
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Thus, where I once urged jurors and judges to impose or uphold death sentences, I now recognize a stark truth: The death penalty is a failed policy.
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Nearly three-quarters of Americans oppose death sentences for individuals convicted of selling drugs that lead to lethal overdoses, according to a Quinnipiac University poll out Thursday.
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Human rights groups have accused the Egyptian regime of carrying out widespread and systematic torture of political prisoners, silencing dissidents and using death sentences to settle scores.
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The measures range from death sentences and imprisonment for watching banned media, to sealing off the country&aposs domestic mobile network from foreign tourists visiting the country.
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President Maithripala Sirisena signed death sentences last month for the four convicted on charges of trading and trafficking in drugs, ending a moratorium on capital punishment since 1976.
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General prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said last week that protesting drivers may face death sentences under stern laws against highway robbery, the state broadcaster IRIB reported on Thursday.
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"In the long term, it looks as though death sentences and executions are going to remain low," Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham told the Guardian.
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The courts have handed out at least seven death sentences since they were set up in August, and some of the trials have been broadcast live on television.
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Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa said the death sentences were deserved because the systematically plotted crimes were so heinous and prompted fears of terrorism both in Japan and abroad.
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But his convictions and death sentences for killing Reeves' daughter and two other women have been repeatedly overturned, and the weary mother wanted to leave nothing to chance.
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Nine men were executed on Wednesday over the 2015 killing of the country's chief prosecutor amid a surge in the number of death sentences carried out this month.
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Death sentences have been handed down to hundreds of his political opponents on charges such as belonging to an illegal organization or planning to carry out an attack.
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Further, with only 30 new death sentences imposed in 2023, America experienced the lowest number of new death row inmates since the reinstatement of the sentence in 1976.
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A panel of three judges headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha rejected the petition that sought a review of the death sentences, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said.
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The death penalty is the ultimate punishment, and in America we have not shied away from imposing it, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s, when death sentences skyrocketed.
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A recent article in the Yale Law Journal Forum reported that death sentences in judicial override cases were more likely to be overturned on appeal because of errors.
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That is, the rate of death sentences has less to do with the crimes of the people being prosecuted than with the men and women doing the prosecuting.
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" Stevenson says that by seeking numerous death sentences, prosecutors in the Deep South "hark back to the history of using the criminal-justice system to maintain racial control.
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Nebraska voters will decide whether to repeal a bill passed by the Legislature in 2015 that ended the death penalty by commuting death sentences to life in prison.
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They each sought damages for having spent several years in solitary confinement after their death sentences had been vacated, but before they were resentenced to life in prison.
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Goldstein said that Garland, for instance, will probably be more willing to let defendants challenge their death sentences if they claim to have received an inadequate legal defense.
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As much as HIV and AIDS are not the frightening death sentences they once were for many (though they still are in impoverished populations), they're still a threat.
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But that decision has not stopped local prosecutors from seeking new death sentences, underscoring the divide in the state between conservative prosecutors and liberal reformers like the governor.
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Since then, as crime has fallen, the number of new death sentences dropped to 31 in 2016, a modern-era low, and 20 states have ended the practice.
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All death sentences in Thailand had been commuted by royal pardon for the nine years before a murder convict was executed in June last year by lethal injection.
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Courts imposed 224 new death sentences in 653 states in 265, but the report projected there would be two to four more by the end of the year.
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Experts have been awaiting the impact of the high court's ruling in Alabama and Delaware, which also allow judges to impose death sentences without a unanimous jury finding.
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The parish, which accounts for almost half of all death sentences in Louisiana, accounts for only 5 percent of the state's population and 5 percent of its homicides.
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A recently-emerged militant group called the Hasm Movement later claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in revenge for death sentences handed out to thousands of convicts.
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In a tweet on Thursday Museveni, who has been in power since 1986, said he had been reluctant to sign off on death sentences because of his "Christian background".
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Drug trafficking carries the death penalty in Sri Lanka but nobody has been executed in the country for 42 years, with death sentences instead commuted to life in prison.
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Ban had raised Nimr's case with Saudi leaders on a number of occasions and urged Saudi Arabia to commute all death sentences that had been imposed, the spokesman said.
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Most executions are carried out in a handful of states, such as Texas, Florida and Oklahoma, and most death sentences are sought by prosecutors in just a few counties.
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Since the death penalty returned to America in 1976, 162 death sentences have been reversed and 1,480 people have been executed, so roughly one in ten was found innocent.
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Those in favor of abolishing the death penalty have consistently argued that there is a racial disparity when it comes to issuing death sentences to white or black defendants.
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" It also noted, "For the first time in the modern history of the U.S. death penalty, no county in the United States imposed more than two new death sentences.
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Also facing death sentences are FAHAD SHABIB AL-BALAWI and WALEED ABDULLAH AL-SHEHRI, both members of the Saudi Royal Guard, and TURKI MUSERREF AL-SHEHRI, an intelligence officer.
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Already, new therapies such as CAR-T have essentially wiped out some forms of cancer; the newest checkpoint inhibitors have turned stage-four metastatic death sentences into full remission.
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Even so, the reduction in new death sentences may augur a future where seven executions a year isn't celebrated as a noteworthy dip, but questioned as a macabre reality.
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He had previously voted for an ultimately unsuccessful amendment that would replace all death sentences with life in prison, but voted for the final bill after it was removed.
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Since last year, the effort has produced two black district attorneys in rural Mississippi and one in Caddo Parish, La. — known as the nation's leading jurisdiction for death sentences.
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The Court of Cassation gave no legal reasons for its reversals of the death sentences but is expected to do so in written form in a few days time.
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It's a self-reinforcing strategy: Once a county loses the habit of meting out death sentences, it's probably less likely to do so in the future, Garrett's research suggests.
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A group of 16 counties across the U.S. where a large number of death sentences have been given in recent years is the focus of this week's Times Magazine.
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Two weeks ago, in front of television cameras, Kausalya voiced her relief that her testimony had helped bring death sentences against her father and five others who killed Sankar.
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Iraqi court officials said the man had been sentenced on Monday to death by hanging, a day after three other Frenchmen were given death sentences for Islamic State membership.
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Last May, dozens of inmates with death sentences gathered in a prison yard at Ghezel Hessar and peacefully petitioned the state to commute their punishment to life in prison.
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Egypt requires that courts refer death sentences to the Grand Mufti to give a non-binding opinion to make sure the penalty is in line with the Islamic Sharia.
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That benchmark was set in 1988, when the Iranian regime set up "death commissions" to dole out death sentences for approximately 30,85033 political prisoners, most of them opposition activists.
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Jerry Brown, a liberal who made criminal justice reform in California a hallmark of his legacy, resisted calls to commute California's death sentences before he left office in January.
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There have been several other such death sentences in Texas since, including one handed down to an accomplice in the killing, Lawrence Russell Brewer, who was executed in 2011.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - The High Court of Bangladesh on Sunday upheld the death sentences of two members of a banned Islamist group accused of killing a blogger, a court official said.
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Nor because he particularly cared about gay teenagers running from death sentences in Gambia, or the Afghan kids escaping the no-go zones emerging in Kabul since troops pulled out.
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The three other defendants for whom death sentences were recommended Saturday are documentary producer Ahmed Afify, EgyptAir cabin crew member Mohammed Keilany and academic Ahmed Ismail, according to Saturday's verdict.
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Egyptian judges have issued death sentences against hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters since 2013, when President Mohamed Mursi, a member of the group, was overthrown by the army and arrested.
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The U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, in a report issued on Wednesday, named 11 individuals on trial and those facing death sentences, based on information from various governments' sources.
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From a realist point of view, the Nuremberg trials , which were conducted in 1945 and 1946 and resulted in death sentences for twelve Nazis, were an application of victor's justice.
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Of the 196863 remaining states, only 196853 handed down any death sentences last year, for a total of 196843 across the country — less than half the number six years before.
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De la Rionda has obtained more than 25 death sentences over his career, making him one of the "deadliest" trial lawyers in the country, according to the Fair Punishment Project.
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This past June, while the current serial killer was still at it, a judge upheld nine death sentences and more than 83 other felony convictions against Goudeau, following his appeal.
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The revolt erupted after it emerged five inmates were to be taken to the notorious Sadnaya prison for the implementation of death sentences passed by an extra-judicial military tribunal.
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And nearly one in three of the nation's 39 new death sentences last year were handed down in three counties: Riverside in California, Clark in Nevada and Maricopa in Arizona.
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While even repressive governments like Iran's have taken steps to reduce death sentences, executions still rose, albeit in small numbers, in Belarus, Japan, Singapore, South Sudan and the United States.
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In 2017, the Supreme Court upheld death sentences against four men, with judges ruling the crime met the "rarest of the rare" standard required to justify capital punishment in India.
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Anticipation gave way to amazement when I saw my mother's familiar handwriting — the triple-underlined words, errant dashes and exclamations, a circled phrase and an equal sign — her death sentences.
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Efren Mateo y Garcia, the Supreme Court noted that death sentences had been wrongly imposed in nearly 72 percent of the 907 death-penalty cases it had reviewed since 1993.
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Conservatives have also been angered by court rulings against new abortion restrictions and, along with crime-victim advocates, by rulings in murder cases that overturned death sentences on procedural grounds.
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Across the United States, 49 new death sentences were handed down in 19983, a drop from a recent peak of 315 in 1996, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Executions and new death sentences in 2023 remained near historic lows, trailing only the 2016 totals as the lowest totals seen in the country in more than a quarter-century.
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The main suspect appeared in court on Sunday wearing death row prison clothes, having also been handed two death sentences in military trials after being convicted of attacking military buildings.
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The state has eight prisoners on death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, and the ruling said all their death sentences would be changed to life in prison.
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Those who have not already been sentenced under the sharp spike in death sentences since he came to power are subject to illness, torture, and inefficient or denied medical care.
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There have been other cases of clemency for killers, as when President Barack Obama downgraded death sentences to life without parole, but the vast majority of pardons are for nonviolent crimes.
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A new report from the Death Penalty Information Center found that 2018 was the fourth year in a row in which executions were below 883 and death sentences were below 50.
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" For the first time in more than a quarter century, the report went on, "the number of prisoners facing active death sentences in the United States fell below 2,500 in 2018.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - A Bangladesh court upheld death sentences on Thursday for three members of an outlawed Islamist militant group in connection with a grenade attack on the British ambassador in 2004.
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They were marching against one thing: a government-proposed bill that would allow the extradition of suspected criminals to mainland China, where human rights abuses are rife and death sentences common.
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The execution was the seventh this year in Georgia, matching Texas for the most death sentences carried out in a U.S. state in 2016, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Chinese legal experts have argued that the number of death sentences have been reduced simply because lower court officials are instinctively keen to avoid having their verdicts scrutinized by their superiors.
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Switch the race of victims to black from white, as the officer in the McCleskey case was, and more than half of death sentences would never have occurred, the data showed.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's Supreme Court upheld death sentences on Wednesday for three members of an outlawed Islamist militant group in connection with a grenade attack on the British ambassador in 2004.
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Last year, 53 countries issued death sentences and 23 of them executed at least 993 people, according to Amnesty International, with most executions in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan.
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Some states have even abolished the death penalty in recent years, though none of them were the dozen-or-so Southern and Western states where new death sentences are most common.
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Newsom does not have the power to overturn California's death penalty law, Kreitzberg said, but he can refuse to sign any death warrants and can commute death sentences to life imprisonment.
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Courts set up in a campaign against economic offences handed down out death sentences to three defendants last week, following renewed U.S. sanctions and a public outcry against profiteering and corruption.
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TOLEDO, Ohio — Ohio is moving its death row for the third time in a little over a decade, this time because of the growing number of aging inmates serving death sentences.
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But the number of death sentences actually imposed has steadily fallen since a peak in 1999, when there were 98 executions across the nation, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Death sentences blocked: A federal judge on Wednesday halted four executions that were scheduled to begin next month, essentially stymieing the Trump administration's plan to resume the use of capital punishment.
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I took this action because death sentences are unevenly and unfairly applied based on race, income and mental disability, and because we cannot abide the potential execution of an innocent person.
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His sentencing in federal court — directly across Broad Street from the county judicial building — left Scarlett Wilson, the chief prosecutor for Charleston County, to decide whether redundant death sentences were necessary.
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Yet we learn more about Mr. Sessions' legal mind-set from a look at the 20023-plus death sentences he fought to uphold as Alabama's attorney general from 1995 to 1997.
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Executions, new death sentences and public support for capital punishment in the United States all fell this year to their lowest levels in decades, continuing sharp declines underway since the 1990s.
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American courts have imposed 2905 death sentences in 22, with one more possible, a steep decline from 2984, when 23 cases resulted in capital sentences — the highest figure in modern times.
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The filing by 14 states, which each permit capital punishment, came a day after the Trump administration asked the justices to authorize the U.S. government to carry out four death sentences.
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But the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, in a report issued in June, identified 11 individuals on trial and those facing death sentences, based on information from various governments' sources.
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The number of executions in the United States, in fact, has dropped to its lowest in 25 years, with fewer death sentences imposed last year than in any year since 1973.
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Gavin Newsom of California, a Democrat, announced a moratorium on executions in March 2019, but the death penalty remains legal in the state, and prosecutors have continued to seek death sentences.
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Gavin Newsom of California, a Democrat, announced a moratorium on executions in March 2019, but the death penalty remains legal in the state, and prosecutors have continued to seek death sentences.
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Egyptian judges have issued death sentences against hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters since mid-2013, when President Mohamed Mursi, a member of the group, was overthrown by the army and immediately arrested.
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In an 8-1 decision on Tuesday, the US Supreme Court issued a mostly procedural ruling against Florida's death penalty system, ultimately requiring that the state change how it issues death sentences.
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But juries twice recommended death sentences for Hurst, so it's possible they will repeat the same sentence now that his case is going back to Florida to implement the Supreme Court's decision.
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On the public front, the Chinese government engaged in a smoke and mirrors strategy, alluding to a substantial decrease in death sentences and executions in recent years but never disclosing any numbers.
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President Barack Obama did not move to end the federal death penalty, but he signed no death warrants and he commuted the federal death sentences of two individuals to life without parole.
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The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an exiled opposition group, said his issuing of "thousands" of death sentences amounted to a crime against humanity and urged German prosecutors to investigate.
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China's efforts to rein in those numbers and reform the criminal justice system in 2007 granted the Supreme People's Court the authority to review death sentences on a case by case basis.
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Joe Freeman Britt, a brash North Carolina prosecutor who was called the nation's "deadliest D.A." for his success at winning death sentences, died on April 6 in Lumberton, N.C. He was 80.
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Egypt's judiciary has faced criticism from rights groups in the past two years after judges issued mass death sentences against Muslim Brotherhood supporters, locking up youth activists and sentencing writers and journalists.
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Rather, nearly all of last year's death sentences came from a tiny fraction of counties with three common features: overzealous prosecutors; inadequate public defenders; and a pattern of racial bias and exclusion.
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If the death sentences of agents who had worked so closely with the crown prince are carried out, it would surely shock a kingdom where powerful princes often protect those they trust.
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Death sentences were handed down in only 27 counties nationwide last year, compared with 60 in 2012, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit research group that opposes capital punishment.
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If the crime rate goes back up, do you think there will be more death sentences, or have these standards of better lawyering changed the game enough to survive big political shifts?
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"The high court today upheld death sentences for three, including the HUJI leader Mufti Abdul Hannan, and life imprisonment for two others in the attack," Sheikh Moniruzzaman Kabir, a public prosecutor, told reporters.
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The number of death sentences carried out worldwide fell by 30%, from 20153 in 2017 to 690 last year, according to the latest annual count published by Amnesty International, a human-rights organisation.
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China Judgements Online, the official database established in 2013 that purports to compile court verdicts from the entire country, shows that no less than 701 individuals received death sentences between 2011 and 2016.
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A panel of four judges headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha upheld the death sentences for the three, including the group's leader, Mufti Abdul Hannan, Deputy Attorney General Bashir Ahmed told reporters.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi President Barham Salih said foreign Islamic State fighters tried in Iraq could be handed death sentences, according to an interview published by Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National on Friday.
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Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat, said he will ask state legislators to authorize the alternative methods for carrying out death sentences as Mississippi and other states struggle to obtain lethal injection drugs.
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That disparity was emblematic, they said, of a capital justice system in which death sentences are imposed arbitrarily in fairly few counties around the nation, with prosecutions warped by racial discrimination and politics.
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Death sentences have been handed down to hundreds of Sisi's political opponents, including 75 sentenced to death last month over a 2013 sit-in which ended with security forces killing hundreds of protesters.
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On his way out of office this week, President Barack Obama took the rare step of commuting two federal death sentences—the first time a president has spared someone from execution since 2001.
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Mohamed El-Beltagy, the 56-year-old secretary-general of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, who has been handed several life terms and death sentences, is another of those held at Scorpion.
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The federal inmates under death sentences include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013; and Nidal Hasan, who committed the Fort Hood shooting in 2009.
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State officials had wanted to proceed with the execution despite a May 2 U.S. Supreme Court order directing the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals to reconsider death sentences in light of a Jan.
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But efforts to vigorously contest death sentences now reveal dubious convictions more frequently, he said, bringing to the fore examples of bad forensic science and other prosecution evidence that wilts under close examination.
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With Justices Neil GorsuchNeil GorsuchAppeals court appears wary of letting Trump reinstate death sentences SCOTUS 'TRAP law' case and the erosion of abortion rights Sanders: Releasing list of Supreme Court picks 'not a bad idea' MORE and Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughAppeals court appears wary of letting Trump reinstate death sentences SCOTUS 'TRAP law' case and the erosion of abortion rights Sanders: Releasing list of Supreme Court picks 'not a bad idea' MORE on the Supreme Court bench, overturning Roe may be within reach.
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As authorities keep thousands of suspected Islamists behind bars and courts hand down death sentences, Mubarak-era officials accused of corruption and killings have under Sisi been released or had cases against them dropped.
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On Wednesday, they handed down two death sentences for the 2008 murders — one for the murder of his sixth wife, Sharon Causse, and the other for his hired hitman, Michael James Miller, PEOPLE confirms.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's top appeals court on Tuesday upheld death sentences for 13 members of a disbanded militant group who were convicted of launching attacks on security forces, a judicial source and lawyer said.
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He cut short a visit to Germany for treatment in January when activists referred him to German prosecutors, citing his record of passing death sentences which they said amounted to a crime against humanity.
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It also calls into question the validity of other Sunshine state death sentences, though it will not automatically commute the sentences of Florida's 390 death-row inmates, all but five of whom are men.
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" Of the men who have lost jobs, whose careers she mourns deeply and gravely, she echoed Tortorici's much-quoted tweet: they're suffering, but "they're not death sentences, they're just losing their jobs, you know?
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The state attorney in one of the three, Miami-Dade County, which has twice the population of Corey's jurisdiction and twice the annual number of murders, has five death sentences over the same period.
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China's efforts to rein in the numbers of executions and reform the criminal justice system in 2007 gave the Supreme People's Court the authority to review death sentences on a case by case basis.
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China's efforts to rein in the numbers of executions and reform the criminal justice system in 252 gave the Supreme People's Court the authority to review death sentences on a case by case basis.
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The Code of Hammurabi subjected both the victim and the perpetrator of rape to death sentences — unless the victim was a virgin, in which case the rape was a property crime against her father.
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While Colonel Pohl also ruled that the summaries were adequate for mitigation purposes, the defense is likely to argue on any appeal that death sentences should be off the table for the same reasons.
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In 2007, China's highest court, the Supreme People's Court, won back the power to review death sentences, in an attempt to make use of the penalty more consistent and to root out egregious injustices.
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From 2010 to 2014, among counties with four or more death sentences, more people were sentenced to to be executed per capita in Caddo Parish than in any other county in the United States.
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Under a plea arrangement, he received life terms for each of the murder charges, which will be appended consecutively to the 18 death sentences imposed by a judge and jury in his federal trial.
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Across the country, the 23 executions in 2017 were the second fewest in 26 years, and the projected 39 new death sentences were the second fewest in the modern era of the death penalty.
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In cities such as Jacksonville, Houston and Philadelphia, which had been major sources of death sentences, voters in recent elections ushered in new prosecutorial leadership that is much more reluctant to use capital punishment.
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Also facing death sentences were FAHAD SHABIB AL-BALAWI and WALEED ABDULLAH AL-SHEHRI, both members of the Saudi Royal Guard, and TURKI MUSERREF AL-SHEHRI, an intelligence officer, according to the U.N. report.
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Last year, for the first time, no single county imposed more than two death sentences, bucking a trajectory that placed jurisdictions such as Los Angeles County as the most death-seeking in the nation.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - President Uhuru Kenyatta commuted all death sentences in Kenya to life jail terms on Monday, removing 2,747 convicts from death row in a nation that has not executed anyone for about three decades.
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Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, quoted by state TV, said the courts handed down out death sentences to three defendants after convicting them of "spreading corruption on earth", a capital offense under Iran's Islamic laws.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's top court has upheld the death sentences of 14 men convicted of armed attacks, all of them from the Sunni-ruled kingdom's Shi'ite Muslim minority, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.
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" This geographic concern, Breyer continued, is stark, citing data showing that there were only "16 counties, or 0.5% of all counties nationwide, in which five or more death sentences were imposed from 2010 to 2015.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's president on Wednesday signed death sentences for four people convicted of drug-related offences in a decision analysts said is aimed at boosting his chances of re-election later this year.
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Two NGOs, the Foundation for Fundamental Rights, which is based in Pakistan, and Reprieve, based in Britain, have studied the 310 known cases in which the Supreme Court reviewed death sentences between 2200 and 22017.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's top court upheld death sentences for 20153 men on Monday for their part in Egypt's worst violence at a soccer stadium, in which more than 70 fans were killed in February 2012.
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That's 39 percent lower than the number of death sentences handed out in 2015, which was already a record low since 1972, when the high court once again allowed states to put prisoners to death.
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All three of the Texas defendants sentenced to death in 2016 were black, and 80 percent of new death sentences in the state over the last five years have been imposed on people of color.
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Gross, which involved lethal injection, Justice Stephen Breyer noted in a dissent that only 196803 counties — out of more than 2150,21400 across the United States — had imposed five or more new death sentences since 211970.
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And the American public is increasingly rejecting capital punishment: Support fell to 55 percent in 2016—the lowest level since the 1960s—while only a smattering of counties actually imposes new death sentences in practice.
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After bearing witness to the catastrophe of wrongfully-convicted people facing execution, Illinois Governor George Ryan placed a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois in 1999; in 2003, he commuted over 160 death sentences.
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Some countries, such as China, consider death sentences to be a state secret, while little information can be gathered on others that are too restrictive or marred by conflict, such as North Korea or Syria.
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In 2014, for instance, midazolam was part of the drug protocol in Arizona when a man's execution lasted nearly two hours; the state has since agreed not to use midazolam to carry out death sentences.
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Like other death-penalty states, Texas has faced a shortage of the drugs used to carry out death sentences partly because their manufacturers, many based in Europe, will not allow their sale for such use.
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Lebanese investigative judges routinely call for death sentences in cases of murder, but the country has an unofficial moratorium and has not carried one out since 2004, according to the monitoring group Human Rights Watch.
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But in another case also decided on Thursday, the court said that pre-Ring death sentences remained valid, and by 5 to 2 upheld the sentence of Mark J. Asay, who was sentenced in 1988.
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One of the most notorious magistrates, Mohammed Nagy Shehata, known as the "executioner judge," a holdover from the Mubarak era, has handed out hundreds of lengthy prison terms and death sentences to pro-democracy activists.
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Death sentences are being issued at a dizzying rate in Iraq&aposs rush to prosecute and punish suspected members of the Islamic State group, with more than 230,000 handed out over just the past few years.
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In a 3-2 decision, the court's majority concluded the death sentences pending against convicted killers Timothy Allen and Robert Fry were unlawful because they were disproportionately harsh compared with penalties imposed in similar murder cases.
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The Royal Thai Navy has towed a floating home owned by an American bitcoin trader and his Thai girlfriend, who currently face possible death sentences or life imprisonment for "deteriorating Thailand's independence, " according to multiple reports.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - A Bangladesh court on Tuesday upheld death sentences on a leading politician and 14 members of an elite military force, including a senior officer, for the abduction and murder of seven people in 2014.
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It's no accident that the Lone Star state figures in both appeals: Texas dwarfs its nearest rival, Oklahoma, in total executions (537 to 112) and carried out nearly half of America's 28 death sentences in 2015.
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A new study conducted by the National Law University, which is led by high-ranking judges and lawyers, found that 1,810 death sentences were issued between 2000 and 2014, but only four people have been executed.
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Justice Breyer said that death row exonerations were frequent, that evidence showed innocent people had been executed, that death sentences were imposed arbitrarily, and that the capital justice system was warped by racial discrimination and politics.
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According to the Death Penalty Information Center, of the approximately two hundred death sentences handed down in Philadelphia since 1974, nearly a hundred and fifty have been overturned, often because of inadequate representation or prosecutors' misconduct.
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The rate of executions has fallen markedly, from more than 60 each year nationwide in the late 1990s to fewer than 30 each year since 2015, and the drop in death sentences has been even steeper.
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Mistakes are common: A comprehensive study of death sentences imposed between 1973 and 1995 found reversible errors in nearly 70 percent of cases, and some 156 people who were condemned to death have now been exonerated.
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A statement purportedly from the outlawed group Lashkar-i-Islam claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in revenge for death sentences passed down by a military court for 13 men convicted on terrorism charges.
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The drop aligns with a national trend, as public support for capital punishment has waned and juries have been reluctant to impose death sentences in the face of evidence of racial disparities and high-profile exonerations.
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BANGKOK, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Thailand's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentences of Myanmar migrant workers in the high-profile murder of two British backpackers on the popular tourist island of Koh Tao in 2014.
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There is another deep-seated problem in the federal death-penalty system that often escapes public notice: Federal prisoners typically get less judicial scrutiny of their convictions and death sentences than do state death-row prisoners.
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The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which includes Texas (the state with the most federal death sentences), has never granted a federal death row prisoner permission to appeal based on a post-conviction issue.
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Badie has also been sentenced to death in three other trials, with the Court of Cassation revoking two of the death sentences and ordering retrials, and an appeal against the third currently under deliberation, Al-Ahram reported.
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NEW DELHI – India&aposs highest court on Monday rejected the requests of three men to change their death sentences to imprisonment in the 2012 fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old medical student in New Delhi.
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" Both men were sentenced to death in the same judicial district in Mississippi, the district that Evans told the court "accounts for 'the largest number of death sentences of any of the State's 22 districts since 1976.
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However, death sentences in Iraq are often handed down after very brief trials in which defendants are poorly represented, seldom allowed to give evidence and are often tortured into making confessions that are then used against them.
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A bomb targeting a bus carrying government employees in the Pakistani city of Peshawar killed 15 people on Wednesday, officials said, with a militant group claiming it was a revenge attack for death sentences passed against Islamists.
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At least 977 people were executed in Iran last year, mostly for drug crimes, Amnesty said, while more than 320 death sentences were carried out in Pakistan and at least 158 people were executed in Saudi Arabia.
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For the first time in a decade, the United States dropped out of the world's top five executioners, recording 20 death sentences carried out last year, the fewest since 1991, putting it in seventh place after Egypt.
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Human rights lawyer Asma Jehangir, counsel for two people who have appealed their death sentences, said her clients were forced to affix a thumbprint to a blank sheet of paper, which was later turned into a confession.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - A recently-emerged militant group called the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility on Friday for an assassination attempt on a senior Egyptian prosecutor, saying it was in revenge for death sentences handed to thousands of convicts.
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Our founder, Thurgood Marshall, defended numerous black men facing death sentences and executions in the South, including the Groveland Boys in 1951, who were falsely accused of raping a white woman in Florida and condemned to death.
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It was the court's latest reversal of many of the hundreds of death sentences imposed on Islamists after the ouster of Mursi, a Muslim Brotherhood member, a crackdown strongly criticized by Western government and human rights groups.
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Earlier this month, the Florida Supreme Court struck down a terrible state law that allowed nonunanimous juries to impose death sentences — increasing the likelihood that innocent people and those with intellectual or mental disabilities would be condemned.
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"Inmates in solitary confinement on death row without active death sentences face the perils of extreme isolation and are at risk of erroneous deprivation of their liberty," Circuit Judge Theodore McKee wrote for a three-judge panel.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. executions and new death sentences rose slightly in 2017 from a year ago but remained the lowest in decades as capital punishment has declined in the country, a survey released on Thursday showed.
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A five-member Federal Court panel unanimously ruled that the death sentences were the most appropriate, upholding a decision by a lower court to increase the penalty from life sentences, according to the state news agency Bernama.
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Separately, another Cairo criminal court referred the cases of three men accused over a 2018 failed assassination attempt against Alexandria's security chief to Egypt's top religious authority, paving the way for possible death sentences, judicial sources said.
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Well over 100 death sentences in Florida are invalid and must go back to trial courts for resentencing, the State Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, potentially placing a major burden on prosecutors, defense lawyers and the courts.
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The bill sent to Republican Governor Rick Scott requires at least 10 of 12 jurors to agree on death sentences in murder cases, and they must have unanimously agreed on the facts, or aggravating factors, warranting it.
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The death sentences handed down by a Saudi court to five anonymous men in the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul only add another level of infamy to the foul murder.
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He said that there was evidence that innocent people have been executed, that death row exonerations were frequent, that death sentences were imposed arbitrarily and that the capital justice system was warped by racial discrimination and politics.
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The 11 potential nominees did not include the two Supreme Court justices he nominated in his first term in office, Neil GorsuchNeil GorsuchAppeals court appears wary of letting Trump reinstate death sentences SCOTUS 'TRAP law' case and the erosion of abortion rights Sanders: Releasing list of Supreme Court picks 'not a bad idea' MORE and Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughAppeals court appears wary of letting Trump reinstate death sentences SCOTUS 'TRAP law' case and the erosion of abortion rights Sanders: Releasing list of Supreme Court picks 'not a bad idea' MORE.
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Related story: Iraqi court issues death sentences in 'Speicher Massacre' Before Iraqi forces retook the base in 2015, so-called "Speicher families" waited nearly a year to find out what happened to their missing sons, brothers and husbands.
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Editorial For the second time in three Supreme Court terms, the justices have struck down a Florida law that treated the Constitution as little more than a speed bump on the road to quicker and easier death sentences.
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These lethal injections were the first back-to-back executions in the United States since Texas carried out the death sentences of Brian Roberson and Oliver Cruz on August 9, 2000, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, a former chief justice, was in Germany for treatment at the clinic of Iranian-German neurosurgeon Majid Samii when activists referred him to prosecutors, citing what they called his record of passing death sentences.
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Thanks, however, to the constitutional challenge lodged by Mr Kinyua and his friends, the Supreme Court now accepts that death sentences should no longer be mandatory for murder (the recent case of the policeman was considered exceptionally heinous).
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Patrick Kennedy was convicted of raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter, and while the Supreme Court had ruled in 1977 that death sentences for raping adults were unconstitutional, it had left vague whether sentences for raping children were.
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"The patterns are more striking this year than the numbers themselves," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that issued an annual report on executions and death sentences on Friday.
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To be carried out, the death sentences, usually done by beheading in Saudi Arabia, must be upheld by an appeals court and the high court and approved by the king — a process that could drag on for years.
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CAIRO — An Egyptian military court handed down death sentences on Thursday to 17 people convicted in a series of fatal attacks on Christians that started in December 2016 and left more than 80 people dead and 20183 wounded.
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Cairo (CNN)An Egyptian court on Saturday issued its final verdict upholding death sentences against 290 Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters -- including journalists -- for their participation in protests following the 1.23 ouster of democratically elected President Mohamed Morsy.
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An Egyptian court on Saturday issued death sentences for 75 people, including prominent Islamist leaders, and jailed more than 600 others over a 2013 sit-in which ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces.
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Rights groups say Sisi has muzzled political opponents, activists and critical media, while courts have passed death sentences on hundreds of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood since he deposed the Brotherhood's president, Mohammed Mursi, after mass protests in 2013.
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The death penalty has been on the decline in America: Although it's still legal in 29 states, the number of executions carried out each year is falling, and the number of new death sentences is also on the decline.
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The state's top court ruled 4-3 last year that a 2012 state law banning the issuance of new death sentences, but allowing executions to go ahead for people previously sentenced to death, amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
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In his former role as one of the Taliban insurgency's senior judges, he was responsible for issuing a series of death sentences against opponents of Mansour, according to General Abdul Razeq, police chief of Akhundzada's home city of Kandahar.
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The scandal so compromised law enforcement that a decade after the Chicago Police Department expelled Burge from the force in 1993, George Ryan, the Illinois governor, commuted the death sentences of all 167 death row inmates in the state.
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Clear leads did not turn into arrests, and tough sentences were drastically reduced — including for those four men identified at the center of the violence, who had their death sentences turned into as little as 10 years in prison.
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But there is no indication that the Justice Department review will be finished before Obama leaves office, and the department has continued to pursue death sentences, most famously against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Charleston shooter Dylann Roof.
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Mr. Reismeier's predecessor as the convening authority, Harvey Rishikof, and his legal adviser had been discussing whether to seek life imprisonment rather than death sentences in exchange for guilty pleas by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, accused of being the Sept.
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The strategy of defense lawyers is to focus on that torture as mitigation against potential death sentences and to seek suppression of statements their clients made to the F.B.I. shortly after the C.I.A. sent them to Guantánamo in 2007.
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Najia Bounaim, the North Africa campaign director for Amnesty International, said that mass death sentences, such as those on Thursday, that were handed down after "grossly unfair" military trials did not serve justice and would not prevent more attacks.
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Its government is dealing with ISIS suspects arrested on its soil by handing down death sentences after 10-minute trials, but it appears to have neither the desire nor the legal ability to prosecute non-Iraqis captured in Syria.
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Last week, the Florida Supreme Court invalidated between 150 and 200 death sentences — nearly half of all those in the state — because they were imposed under a law the United States Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional in January.
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Justice Minister Haidar al-Zamili said on Sunday he expected more death sentences to be carried out over killings after Camp Speicher's fall to Islamic State, dismissing U.N. and human rights groups concern over the fairness of the trials.
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In the case of the murdered Mongolian model, two policemen from Najib's security detail were convicted, and have death sentences hanging over them, but the question of who ordered them to kill 28-year-old Altantuya has never been answered.
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni may resume signing off on death sentences after a long hiatus to help stem a wave of crime, he said on Twitter in comments that were quickly denounced by rights activists opposed to capital punishment.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top court on Friday upheld death sentences against four men who fatally gang raped a woman on board a bus in 2012, a crime that sparked widespread protests and drew international attention to violence against women.
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Warhol took the suggestion and snatched the electric chair image from a news wire service dated January 23, 225, that was announcing the historic death sentences of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
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He provides little relief for condemned prisoners appealing their death sentences, has been solicitous of religious corporations and nuns seeking exemptions from Obamacare's contraceptive mandate and rejects liberal objections to public religious displays like the Ten Commandments in public parks.
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Augustus also banned anonymous writing in a bid to control incendiary attacks distributed via pamphlets and used legal means to command the burning of incriminatory writings (with some condemned authors issued with 'literary death-sentences' for their entire life's work).
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Egypt has sentenced the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood to life in prison on Monday, in addition to handing down lengthy prison or death sentences for 35 others, reported state-run news agency Al-Ahram and other news outlets.
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The new Islamic revolutionary courts — whose rulings cannot be appealed, except for death sentences — were set up in August after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for "swift and just" legal action to confront an "economic war" by foreign enemies.
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While unseating a chief prosecutor like Angela Corey tends to reduce death sentences, the longtime expectations of veterans in the system — judges and staff lawyers who specialize in trying homicide cases — can keep the gears of death-penalty prosecutions turning.
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In 2014, a court in Hebei Province, in northern China, gave death sentences to five defendants and prison sentences to 16 others for having recruited men to work in mines under false names and then killing them for the hush money.
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"The trend of handing down death sentences started before the prosecutor was killed, but after the assassination it escalated," said Mona Seif, co-founder of No to Military Trials, an independent group that tracks and assists civilians tried by military court.
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Still, the prospect of victory by Raisi, who was one of four judges in the 1980s that approved the death sentences of thousands of political prisoners, was enough to drive even doubtful Iranians out to vote for Rouhani in force.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's highest court on Wednesday quashed death sentences imposed on 14 Islamists over an attack on a police station in protest at the military's overthrow in 2013 of then-President Mohamed Mursi, the state news agency MENA said.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights watchdog called on Vietnam on Thursday to stop imprisoning activists and journalists for criticizing state policies and voiced concern at a "high number of death sentences and executions" imposed for lesser crimes after flawed trials.
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Their dynamic gives Washington room to be light, breezy, and self-deceptive even as he's handing out life-or-death sentences to his bar mates; his descent into madness in turn makes Morse's tortured, clear-eyed performance even more gripping.
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"The casual manner in which death sentences are handed in blasphemy cases coupled with the lack of orientation of Pakistani courts with technology makes this a very dangerous situation," Human Rights Watch representative Saroop Ijaz told The Guardian in a statement.
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"The decision to commute death sentences brings Kenya closer to the growing community of nations that have abolished this cruel and inhuman form of punishment," said Muthoni Wanyeki, the group's regional director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes.
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According to a 2019 poll, 60% of Americans said they would prefer life in prison over execution as the most severe form of punishment in the US.All inmates with prior death sentences in Colorado have been commuted to life without parole.
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In a one-two punch on Thursday, Saudi Arabia announced it would seek death sentences and the United States levied sanctions against some members of the team of Saudis suspected of murdering Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
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But striking such a deal would mean giving up on winning death sentences against defendants accused of aiding the murder of nearly 3,000 people, and could amount to surrender over the idea of using military commissions to prosecute terrorism cases.
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Tammy McKinney, who grew up with Judge Cunningham and remained in touch with him, said the judge had taken "special pride" in overseeing the death sentences of the Texas Seven "because they included Latinos and a Jew," according to the motion.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian court on Monday upheld death sentences handed down to nine men from the Philippines in connection with an 2013 incursion into the Malaysian part of Borneo island by Philippine fighters seeking to stake an ancient claim.
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"Jailhouse informants are common in prosecutions of very serious crimes, including ones that carry life and even death sentences," said Michelle Feldman, the Innocence Project's state campaigns director, whose work focuses on legislative efforts to regulate the use of jailhouse informants.
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States carried out fewer executions in 2016 than they had in 25 years, and juries imposed fewer death sentences than in any year since 1972, when the Supreme Court struck down all of the death penalty laws then on the books.
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The state imposes death sentences at the highest rate in the nation, but the Equal Justice Initiative has limited the number of executions to twenty-two in the past decade, and there has been only one in the past three years.
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"The death penalty has been criticized as being geographically arbitrary, and of being driven by the personalities of local prosecutors," Mr. Dunham said, pointing to three counties where nearly a third of this year's death sentences were imposed: Riverside County, Calif.
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There will be approximately 21991 death sentences handed down in the U.S. in 280, an all-time low since the modern era of United States capital punishment began, in 22016, according to a new report from the Death Penalty Information Center.
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There will be approximately 30 death sentences handed down in the U.S. in 2016, an all-time low since the modern era of United States capital punishment began, in 1973, according to a new report from the Death Penalty Information Center.
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The votes came as the United States is set this year to have the fewest executions since 1991 and the fewest new death sentences since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which monitors U.S. capital punishment.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against two brothers challenging their death sentences for a 2000 Kansas crime spree known as the "Wichita Massacre" that included execution-style murders of one woman and three men on a snowy soccer field.
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The report says death sentences are approved by the Grand Mufti — Syria's most senior cleric — and then by either the minister of defense or the chief of staff of the army, who are deputized to act on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Justice R. Fred Lewis said Ayala appeared to be creating a blanket policy when she announced at a March press conference that she would not seek death sentences in the Ninth Judicial District, which includes Orange and Osceola counties in central Florida.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday upheld verdicts and death sentences in the cases of 16 civilians convicted of terrorism-related offences by military courts, the first time the highest court has ruled on the legality of cases tried by the military.
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The votes came as the United States is set this year to have the fewest executions since 1991 and the fewest new death sentences since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which monitors U.S. capital punishment.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's Supreme Court rejected a final appeal on Sunday by a leading militant and two others against death sentences imposed over a grenade attack on the British ambassador in 2004, lawyers said, meaning they could be hanged at any time.
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The 5-2 decision by the Connecticut Supreme Court follows a 2012 law that banned the imposition of death sentences on newly committed crimes but allowed the state to proceed with the executions of inmates who had already been sentenced to die.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Human rights groups urged Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to intervene by a Thursday deadline to commute the death sentences of six men convicted of killing a policeman, saying they had been kidnapped and tortured into confessing the crime.
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The death sentences, more than the Rising itself, triggered a surge of sympathy for the rebel cause and in elections in 1918, the Irish republican party Sinn Fein won a majority of Irish seats (73 out of 105) in the British parliament.
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After more than a year of campaigning to have their loved ones' death sentences commuted in a case clouded by allegations of flaws in Egypt's judicial system, they received phone calls on Monday directing them to collect their relatives' bodies early Tuesday.
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"Proximity to re-election makes judges more punitive — more likely to impose longer sentences, affirm death sentences and even override life sentences to impose death," a report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law concluded last year.
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Some justices also seemed ready to use the case to chastise the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, for its reluctance to grant so-called certificates of appealability, which are required in some challenges to death sentences.
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Drawing from the meticulous records kept by the prison guards, he was able to find details about the final months of the lives of victims that particularly interested him, such as how they reacted to their death sentences and to facing execution.
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" On Sunday, after death sentences were handed down in the first three cases, the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement that "France respects the Iraqi authorities' sovereignty," but added that "France is opposed, on principle, to the death penalty, anytime and anywhere.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two migrant workers from Myanmar will seek a royal pardon from Thailand's king after its Supreme Court on Thursday upheld their death sentences for the murder of two British backpackers that drew world attention to the tourist island of Koh Tao.
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Some were shot by the Germans for their acts of kindness, and after the war, as rumors became death sentences, those even suspected of helping the Americans were executed by Albania's Communist dictator, Enver Hoxha, whose rule ended with his death in 19403.
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With all its Washington antagonists out of town for the holidays and with Trump out-of-sight in Florida, Saudi Arabia dropped its verdict on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Death sentences for five anonymous suspects -- and all higher-ups cleared of wrongdoing.
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It was also the fifth year in a row with fewer than 7373 death sentences handed down, a steep decrease from the 118 imposed in 2009, said the non-profit organization that collects data on the death penalty in the United States.
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The projected total of people who will have been sentenced to death this year is 39, one of the lowest annual totals since 1972 and second only to last year, in which a record low of 31 death sentences were handed down.
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The second — arbitrariness — focused on data showing that the death penalty does not punish "the worst of the worst," as intended, and that a "county-by-county disparity" exists, resulting in most death sentences across the country being imposed in a small handful of counties.
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He usually sides with companies, provides little relief for condemned prisoners appealing against death sentences, goes out of his way to protect institutions claiming that laws like Obamacare burden their religious liberty and rejects objections to religious displays like the Ten Commandments in public parks.
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Apart from the number of lives taken, the use of the death penalty is in many countries riddled with serious problems: unfair trials, the use of torture to extract "confessions," death sentences for juvenile offenders and a lack of transparency, to name a few.
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Edwards is also Catholic, and Landry has speculated that the governor has deliberately dragged his feet on executions: A judge recently barred Louisiana from carrying out any death sentences until mid-2019, at Edwards&apos request, after the governor cited trouble obtaining lethal drugs.
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The council and the armed group agreed on "amnesty for all political detainees, dropping death sentences handed in absentia against leaders of armed movements, as well as opening paths and corridors to deliver humanitarian aid to war-affected people in conflict zones," SUNA said.
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More people in the Finnmark region — then home to only around 29950,224 people or 0.8 percent of Norway's population — were executed for witchcraft than anywhere else in Norway, which accounted for 19 percent of all Norwegian trials and 31 percent of all death sentences.
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Read more: Expert says it's hard to protect the popular tourist area of Morocco where 2 Scandinavian women were recently killed — and it's become easier for ISIS to operate thereThe death sentences for al-Joud, Ouziad, and Afati were announced after several hours of deliberation.
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The government is prosecuting 739 people for participation in the protests Before the verdict can be finalized and death sentences carried out, Egypt's penal code requires the Grand Mufti, the country's leading Islamic authority, to issue a religious opinion on the matter, according to Ahram.
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An 1889 uprising by workers on Navassa Island, off the coast of Haiti, led to the deaths of five whites; President Benjamin Harrison commuted the death sentences of its leaders after an investigation revealed that the workers had no recourse to any government official.
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"Tucker was sentenced to death in a Louisiana county (Caddo Parish) that imposes almost half the death sentences in Louisiana, even though it accounts for only 5 percent of that state's population and 5 percent of its homicides," Justice Breyer wrote, citing Mr. Tucker's brief.
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In the end, while the three justices' views, passionately laid out over a total 16 pages, are unlikely to change the majority sentiment, they call attention to the difficult legal issues still in the backdrop even as the number of death sentences has plummeted nationwide.
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While Indian trial courts aggressively impose death sentences, 95 percent of them have been overturned or commuted by higher courts in recent years, a recent study showed, typically in consideration of "mitigating circumstances" like slipshod investigations or the potential of the accused to be rehabilitated.
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" In a joint statement, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said the rise in death sentences against Shiites in Saudi Arabia "is alarming and suggests that the authorities are using the death penalty to settle scores and crush dissent under the guise of combating 'terrorism.
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What is happening in Harris County, Texas, reflects a change across the United States, where new death sentences are set this year to hit the lowest levels since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 as many prominent prosecution offices lose their zeal for execution.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The threat of death sentences against a couple who set up an offshore home near a Thai island, has sparked a debate on the growing "seasteading" movement and the right to create floating settlements to cope with the effects of climate change.
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Many supporters of capital punishment say that while the system can be reformed to reduce racial disparities, and thus produce fewer death sentences, the penalty should remain an option for prosecutors and juries in the most heinous of crimes, including some of the cases underway in California.
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The gaps in the public records indicated that the Chinese government was not living up to its promises to be more transparent and consistent in how courts imposed death sentences, said William Nee, a China researcher in Hong Kong for Amnesty International, who helped write the report.
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This shortage, and the fact that existing supplies are expiring, will make it even harder for states to carry out the death penalty in 2018, even though U.S. courts handed out 39 more death sentences in 2017, according to a Death Penalty Information Center report released in mid-December.
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The government also adopted legal provisions with a view to limiting the risk of wrongful convictions, such as allowing the courts to exclude illegally obtained evidence and increasing the use of "suspended" death sentences, that are usually commuted to a term of imprisonment after two years have been served.
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READ: Hong Kong police have started arresting pro-democracy protest leaders The controversial bill that sparked the last 13 weeks of protests would have allowed the extradition of suspects on a case-by-case basis to mainland China, where human rights abuses are rife and death sentences common.
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Some particularly awful state policies have also been eliminated in the past couple of years, like a Florida law that permitted non-unanimous juries to impose death sentences, and an Alabama rule empowering judges to override a jury's vote for life, even a unanimous one, and impose death.
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Juries around the country imposed 30 death sentences in 2016, a 40 percent drop from last year and fewer than at any time since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, according to a report by the Death Penalty Information Center, a research group that opposes capital punishment.
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Earlier in September, Justice Sotomayor indicated that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, had read a Supreme Court precedent too narrowly in rejecting the possibility that some challenges to death sentences could ever be reopened in light of changes in the law.
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In legal circles, the work of Ms. Holdman and those who have followed in her footsteps has been widely credited as an important factor in the decline of the death penalty nationwide, from more than 300 death sentences per year in the mid-1990s to 30 in 2016.
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The group, the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit that opposes capital punishment, found that states carried out fewer than 30 executions and imposed fewer than 50 new death sentences for the fifth year in a row, continuing sharp declines since 1999, when there were nearly 100 executions.
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Though their death sentences were commuted, Ms. Secor reports, they were tortured horribly in prison: Akbar refused to implicate his brother in a foreign plot against the state and was beaten so badly that a disk in his spine ruptured and he suffered internal bleeding from his kidneys and stomach.
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Dia Hua also notes that the data set from 2010 is "unlikely to show a downward trend in capital punishment" and that any previous efforts to scale back the numbers of executions would likely be offset by death sentences handed down during recent anti-terrorism and anti-corruption witch hunts.
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In a string of rulings over the last three decades, the circuit has ruled that schools could not require students to say the Pledge of Allegiance because it included the phrase "under God," struck down a California ban on same-sex marriage and repeatedly blocked death sentences from being carried out.
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In a 148-page opinion, the court held that Delaware's death penalty law gave judges, rather than juries, too great a role in imposing death sentences, violating constitutional requirements that the United States Supreme Court laid out in a January decision that has brought executions in Florida to a temporary halt.
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According to the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, these have been the fruits of Mr. Sisi's term in office: 60,000 political prisoners, 7,513 civilians tried in military tribunals, 2,332 death sentences, 500 people barred from travel, 465 internet sites shuttered, 54 journalists and media workers jailed, 17 new prisons.
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One reason for the large number of justices on China's top court, Ms. Finder said, is the range of issues they are expected to rule on, including the many death sentences that must be reviewed by the Supreme People's Court, frequent legal interpretations and dealing with petitioners who cannot find justice locally.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "14 Death Sentences in 2 Hours: Iraq Shows No Mercy to ISIS Suspects" (news article, April 18): The issue is not only with Iraq's all-encompassing counterterrorism prosecutions; another roadblock to justice is the country's underlying penal code, which is woefully unfit to address ISIS' most heinous crimes.
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As the case against capital punishment builds, the numbers of executions and death sentences have steadily declined, reaching their lowest level in at least two decades in 2015, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, with 93 percent of the executions carried out in only four states — Texas, Missouri, Georgia and Florida.
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They said the deal brokered late on Sunday would end a mutiny in the Hama prison in central Syria that started last week when political detainees revolted after five inmates were to be taken to the notorious Sadnaya prison for the execution of death sentences passed by an extra-judicial military tribunal.
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Nationwide, the reversal rate for resolved death sentences is 72 percent, and while the average exoneration rate for death row inmates in other states is 1.8 percent (less than half of Louisiana's rate), that still translates to a national total of 156 innocent people sentenced to death and later exonerated since 1973.
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Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Mueller report fades from political conversation Barr removes prisons chief after Epstein death MORE recently announced the reinstatement of the federal death penalty — this comes as executions and death sentences in states are at historic lows.
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"There is absolutely no question that mandatory death sentences are unconstitutional, and any law that attempts to institute a mandatory death penalty would be struck down as unconstitutional," Robert Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Center told the AP. Wagner is running against Paul Mango and Laura Ellsworth for the GOP nomination.
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But in a sign of the changing times, Harris County in Texas, once known as the "buckle on the execution belt" for sending more people to the death chamber than any other nationwide, accounted for zero executions or death sentences in 2017, the study said, the first time this has happened since 1974.
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Another amicus brief from a group of nonprofits, including the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault and the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, countered that death sentences for child rape increased the odds that child molesters would kill their victims, and deterred victims and their guardians from reporting family members or family friends.
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In 2202, Roberts joined a 2628-28500 majority decision written by Justice Samuel AlitoSamuel AlitoAppeals court appears wary of letting Trump reinstate death sentences Justices grapple with 'Bridgegate' convictions Justice Roberts neglects his own role in tilting American democracy MORE that let stand Ohio's restrictive voter purges, then the nation's most aggressive.
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The Trump administration quickly took the issue all the way to the Supreme Court in an effort to press forward with plans for the four executions, insisting that extensive planning had taken place to carry out the death sentences last month and this month at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind.
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I'm currently writing a biography of my grandfather, American Communist Party leader Earl Browder, who was very active in the civil rights movement of the 1930s — he was in the forefront of the international battle to free the Scottsboro Boys, nine black teenagers given death sentences after being falsely accused of rape.
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear its first abortion-related cases since President TrumpDonald John TrumpDem lawmaker says Nunes threatened to sue him over criticism Parnas: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed to clear path for investigations into Bidens Five takeaways from Parnas's Maddow interview MORE appointed Justices Neil GorsuchNeil GorsuchAppeals court appears wary of letting Trump reinstate death sentences SCOTUS 'TRAP law' case and the erosion of abortion rights Sanders: Releasing list of Supreme Court picks 'not a bad idea' MORE and Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughAppeals court appears wary of letting Trump reinstate death sentences SCOTUS 'TRAP law' case and the erosion of abortion rights Sanders: Releasing list of Supreme Court picks 'not a bad idea' MORE in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
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In recent weeks the justices issued countervailing decisions concerning the death penalty, both by 8-1 votes: they rapped Florida on the knuckles for giving judges, not juries, the final word on whether convicts should be executed and restored death sentences for three Kansas inmates who complained that their juries were given faulty instructions.
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His critics believe that Justice McDonald should have recused himself from the case; they argued that he had a record of opposing the death penalty as a legislator and that he was the governor's general counsel involved in crafting the language of the bill, which maintained previous death sentences while repealing capital punishment going forward.
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For instance, Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Singapore's ambassador to the United States, declared in a letter to the editor published in The Washington Post this month that Singapore had halved the number of drug abusers arrested between the 1990s and 2016 — a state of affairs supposedly brought about by the country's willingness to impose death sentences.
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Executions, new death sentences and public support for the death penalty in the United States remained at their lowest levels in decades this year as half of the country has abolished the death penalty or imposed a moratorium on executions, according to the annual report of a death penalty research group released on Tuesday.
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" The report applauded the Iranian law that requires the country's Supreme Court to review all death sentences, but said it was concerned about the lack of due process and fair trial rights, including "long periods of incommunicado and pretrial detention, and lack of adequate access to a lawyer and/or to a proper defense.
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But if Delaware's legislature does not act, New Hampshire will become the only state in the northeastern part of the country that still allows the death penalty: According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 2015 had the lowest number of death sentences since the death penalty was reinstituted in 1973 — continuing an overall drop since 1996.
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Less energy is devoted to debating the death penalty's supposed purposes of deterrence and retribution; more discussion, and litigation, revolves around peripheral issues like exempting children and the intellectually disabled from capital punishment, the relative roles of juries and judges in issuing death sentences, and the constitutionality of certain execution methods that may cause suffering before death.
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" Dunham added "that the type of errors that typically result in a death sentence being overturned frequently are unearthed in post-conviction proceedings" (like those Spears was foregoing), and also, "there have been cases in which inmates who waived their appeals changed their mind at the last minute, halting their executions, and subsequently had their death sentences overturned.
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At the time of his 1997 trial, the district attorney's office in Harris County, which includes Houston, was more than three times as likely to seek the death penalty for black defendants like Mr. Buck, and Harris County juries were more than twice as likely to impose death sentences on black defendants than on comparable white defendants.
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The suit names government figures and agencies including Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrHillicon Valley: Trump turns up heat on Apple over gunman's phone | Mnuchin says Huawei won't be 'chess piece' in trade talks | Dems seek briefing on Iranian cyber threats | Buttigieg loses cyber chief Appeals court appears wary of letting Trump reinstate death sentences Apple v.
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He further claimed that Vice President Pence and Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrHillicon Valley: Trump turns up heat on Apple over gunman's phone | Mnuchin says Huawei won't be 'chess piece' in trade talks | Dems seek briefing on Iranian cyber threats | Buttigieg loses cyber chief Appeals court appears wary of letting Trump reinstate death sentences Apple v.
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Justice Stephen Breyer, joined by the three other liberal justices on the high court, penned a furious dissent, released at 2:51 AM, ET. "Should anyone doubt that death sentences in the United States can be carried out in an arbitrary way, let that person review the following circumstances as they have been presented to our Court this evening," Breyer wrote.
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In 2017, Schumer won the fight over ObamaCare and a year later, McConnell scored a major win with the Senate's approval of Supreme Court nominee Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughAppeals court appears wary of letting Trump reinstate death sentences SCOTUS 'TRAP law' case and the erosion of abortion rights Sanders: Releasing list of Supreme Court picks 'not a bad idea' MORE.
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McConnell prevailed to secure the Senate confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughAppeals court appears wary of letting Trump reinstate death sentences SCOTUS 'TRAP law' case and the erosion of abortion rights Sanders: Releasing list of Supreme Court picks 'not a bad idea' MORE, while Schumer won a legislative battle to retain the Obama-era Affordable Care Act.
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He implicated Attorney General Barr, saying he "had to have known everything" Parnas continued by connecting Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrHillicon Valley: Trump turns up heat on Apple over gunman's phone | Mnuchin says Huawei won't be 'chess piece' in trade talks | Dems seek briefing on Iranian cyber threats | Buttigieg loses cyber chief Appeals court appears wary of letting Trump reinstate death sentences Apple v.
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