And when he heard his sentence to death by hanging, he shouted at the judge, we're not criminals.
She is the only witness in her defense as the Arizona jury decides whether to sentence her to death for stabbing and shooting her onetime boyfriend.
Under Colorado law, as in other states that authorize capital punishment, that jury will first be "death qualified, " that is, purged of citizens whose faith or moral precepts would not permit them to sentence Holmes to death.
The judge dismissed four potential jurors because of their opposition to capital punishment. (This judge later served on South Carolina's Supreme Court, and landed in some hot water by professing to find racist jokes inoffensive and funny.) It took the jury less than three hours to convict Mr Elmore, and an additional 50 minutes to sentence him to death.
Although the jury in the earlier case declined to sentence the defendants to death, that determination does not bind a future jury.
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"The court decides to sentence Saddam Hussein to death by hanging for committing willful killing as a crime against humanity, " the judge intoned.
Everyone here knows Zhu Demei's father and 1, 000 people have signed a petition urging the authorities to commute his death sentence to a prison term.
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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.
Some Chinese patients awaiting transplants say abolishing inmate donations will be akin to a death sentence for them, according to a report published in the medical journal Lancet in 2011.
COMMANDED, at some hour after 6:00 p.m. on the 17th day of February, 2004, at the Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville, Texas, to carry out this sentence of death by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause the death of said Cameron Todd Willingham.
Manson's death sentence was changed to life in prison after California's death penalty was overturned for a period during the 1970s.
The letter said Christians and Muslims should act together to get Ayub Masih's death sentence lifted and also to get the blasphemy laws repealed.
The bloggers' network since then has organized rallies demanding the tribunal give the maximum death sentence to all those found guilty.
In addition to the five acquittals, a sixth man, one of the village elders, had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment last week.
Or is he planning to reveal all to a jury which would have to decide on a death sentence in the hope that they will send him to prison instead?
And I think -- I don't have any problem saying that I think that conviction would lead to the death sentence.
That is tantamount to a death sentence for a corporation that lives on its integrity--it was, at any rate, for Arthur Andersen.
And if he is convicted, it is the President, not an independent court, that reviews the verdict and sentence up to and including the death penalty.
Although he was pardoned by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for making a full disclosure, Nofemela had his death sentence converted to life imprisonment for murdering the farmer.
He wants to slow the proceedings down, to give his fellow-judges and the jurors time to consider the gravity of their responsibility and perhaps to reconsider their authority to pronounce a sentence of death.
How directly involved in violence must an individual be to receive a death sentence?
Yet, a just-released report by FDLE investigators may prove to be a death sentence.
Mr Robinson was the first person to have his death sentence vacated under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act.
The UK government says it too welcomes the verdict but not the death sentence handed down to Saeed Sheikh.
He was the first person in the city to receive the death sentence from a federal jury since 1954.
Four years ago the Supreme People's Court took back the right to review every death sentence handed out by lower courts.
European countries protested in vain to delay a death sentence carried out on Friday against a Mexican-born man who murdered a college student in Texas.
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