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Germany allowed the extradition after receiving assurances the pair would be tried in a civilian court and not face a capital sentence if found guilty.
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In 2006, the central government seized oversight of death sentences from provincial courts, restoring it to the Supreme People's Court after a 23-year hiatus, amid what state media suggested was a rash of errors in judicial judgments and excessive use of the capital sentence.
WSJ: China Rejects Millionaire's Death Sentence
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Gen Bachelet died on 12 March 1974 while serving a sentence for treason in the capital, Santiago.
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Komisarjevsky received his death sentence three months before the state repealed capital punishment in future cases.
CNN: Executions, death sentences remain steady over past year
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The capital murder and terrorism charges carry the death penalty as a possible sentence.
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But they were soon overshadowed by thousands of protesters who flooded a major intersection in the capital, Dhaka, upset by what they said was a lenient sentence of life in prison, which actually means just 14 years in Bangladesh.
NPR: Bangladeshis Demand Death For War Crimes Convict
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The BBC's Ebow Godwin in the capital, Lome, says Kpatcha Gnassingbe did not seem worried by the sentence.
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Mr Straw's most recent intervention was on 30 January when he contacted the chairman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole to urge them to commute the death sentence to a prison term and reiterate Britain's opposition to capital punishment.
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That is not a sentence I have written before and it indicates the remarkable changes that have happened in the capital with regards to cycling.
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