Dr. Gosnell, 72 years old, faces a possible death sentence when the jury reconvenes next week to consider sentencing.
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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.
And I think -- I don't have any problem saying that I think that conviction would lead to the death sentence.
Yet, a just-released report by FDLE investigators may prove to be a death sentence.
It may well prove to be a death sentence.
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I've been able to travel this country even as this early - this young age and tell women twice my age, half my age, of different nationalities, colors, ethnicities, if you are ever diagnosed with breast cancer, it does not have to mean a death sentence.
In 1989, being diagnosed as HIV positive really did amount to an almost certain death sentence.
The case next moves to the penalty phase, when jurors will weigh whether to give Gosnell a death sentence.
Cornell said Malvo's confession -- made to Fairfax County police and the FBI -- was "inaccurate, " and was an attempt to spare Muhammad a death sentence.
And now this turn of events in Pakistan: The man convicted of beheading Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is planning to use Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession to appeal his own death sentence.
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.
But while western diplomats demand a letter from Iran revoking the decree, they may get second best - a ruling which says it is not in the state's interests to carry out the death sentence.
If they don't and are later found to have hired illegals, they could lose their licenses to operate, a corporate death sentence.
The UK government says it too welcomes the verdict but not the death sentence handed down to Saeed Sheikh.
But Army rules prohibit a judge from accepting a guilty plea to charges that could result in a death sentence.
But they are popular, and many Quebeckers see them as a price worth paying to prevent a demographic death sentence for their culture.
In addition to the five acquittals, a sixth man, one of the village elders, had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment last week.
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.
The most serious charge available to federal prosecutors would be the use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill people, which carries a possible death sentence.
However his sentence was reduced to life imprisonment when Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2002.
He was the first person in the city to receive the death sentence from a federal jury since 1954.
He is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill, a crime that carries a potential death sentence.
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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