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death and penalty
namely, the law that prescribes the death penalty for murder when there seem to be no extenuating circumstances.
Facing a prosecution which has demanded the death penalty, he said: ' I have participated in the war against Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation of North Vietnamese to the free world.
-- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.
His father, although a kind man in private, was also an aggressive prosecuting attorney who tried death penalty cases, arguing strongly for the death penalty to be imposed.
After he left home before the age of eighteen, his main interest in life was his opposition to the death penalty, which he regarded as state-sponsored murder.
* Jesus's death satisfies God's justice: The penalty for the sins of the elect is paid in full through Jesus's work on the cross.
Four of the eight were given the death penalty and were executed by hanging in July.
( Antiphon 5. 69 – 70 ) There was also a death penalty for " inadequate performance " while in office.
Current positions of the ACLU include: opposing the death penalty ; supporting gay marriage and the right of gays to adopt ; supporting birth control and abortion rights ; eliminating discrimination against women, minorities, and gays ; supporting the rights of prisoners and opposing torture ; supporting the right of religious persons to practice their faiths without government interference ; and opposing any government preference for religion over non-religion, or for particular faiths over others.
Firm details of specific rites are sparse, as members were sworn under the penalty of death not to reveal anything about the Mysteries to non-initiates.
The death penalty was the automatic sentence by North Carolina law at the time, if two requisites in the case were satisfied.
Had he pled guilty to first-degree murder, Alford would have had the possibility of a life sentence, but avoided the death penalty.
Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.
When an MP Widdecombe was known for her strong socially conservative views, opposing the legality of abortion and supporting the re-introduction of the death penalty.
Over the years, Widdecombe has expressed her support for a reintroduction of the death penalty, which was abolished in the UK in 1965.
She supported the argument that the death penalty would have deterrent value, as within five years of its abolition the national murder rate had more than doubled.
http :// uk. news. yahoo. com /​ oklahoma-says-running-death ​- penalty-drug-001238468. ht ​ ml reads: " Oklahoma was the first state in the country to use pentobarbital in 2010 after a shortage of another AESTHETIC, sodium thiopental, caused penal officials in death penalty states to look for an alternative .... Oklahoma could resort to another AESTHETIC never used before in executions, Massie said, or it could try to tap existing supplies of pentobarbital.
They have no misgivings about the death penalty ; their position is that evil-doers who deserve death should be killed, and that a king in particular is obliged to punish criminals and should not hesitate to kill them, even if they happen to be his own brothers and sons.
According to some sources, Clinton was in his early years a death penalty opponent who switched positions.
During Clinton's term, Arkansas performed its first executions since 1964 ( the death penalty had been re-enacted on March 23, 1973 ).
Later, as president, Clinton was the first President to pardon a death-row inmate since the federal death penalty was reintroduced in 1988.

death and was
He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.
laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.
Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.
So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.
Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.
Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;
The Coolidges' life, after the death of their son, was quieter than ever.
Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??
Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??
`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.
So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.
The latter was so upset on learning of the death of Morris, that he wrote Morgan a letter, showing his own warmhearted generosity.
Spring was life -- and Alfred Alpert in his sickroom was death.
It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.
There can be no greater magic than to wrest from death her in whom the flesh was all, in whom beauty was entirely pure because it was entirely corruptible.
The medical examiner states that death was due to `` natural causes ''.
Rathbone said he was bleeding to death.
In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.
One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;
But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

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