Subject matter Death sentence after unfair proceedings

In Iran, this can carry a death sentence.

Referral to the Grand Mufti indicates a death sentence.

Before executing death sentence given to women, conditions for non application of death sentence as provided for in the Penal Code must be checked to see whether their sentence can be commuted to life imprisonment.

On all convictions of murder, I imposed the mandatory death sentence.

This is Mauritania's first death sentence for apostasy since independence in 1960.

On 14 June 1984, the court handed down the mandatory death sentence.

In December of 2012, Malekpour's death sentence was commuted from death to life in prison, where he remains today.

A total of 17 countries had replaced the death penalty with a discretionary maximum sentence of life imprisonment, with the alternative being a determinate sentence.

Substantive issues Imposition of death sentence after unfair trial and ill treatment during preliminary investigation

The Indian Supreme Court had upheld his sentence, despite the fact that the Juvenile Justice Act prohibits imposition of the death sentence on persons under 16.

The moratorium on the death penalty applied to the imposition and execution of a death sentence for any crime, regardless of its gravity.

He was sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted in 1995 and he remains in jail.

(g) Anyone sentenced to death shall have the right to seek pardon, or commutation of sentence pardon or commutation of sentence may be granted in all cases of capital punishment

Taseer had given his word that he would not allow the woman s death sentence to be carried out.

Former Liberian first lady Jewel Howard Taylor has introduced a bill making homosexuality liable to a death sentence.

On 23 September 1993, he received a Presidential pardon, and the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

She stated that keeping her son under such conditions amounted to an extrajudicial death sentence, and requested that those responsible for her son's death be brought to justice.

Socrates could have escaped Athens and the death sentence, but he chose to stay and drink the poisonous cup.

However, the Fukuoka High Court revoked the death sentence and sentenced him to life imprisonment on September 29, 2009.

She submits the communication on behalf of her husband, Mr. Deolall, currently imprisoned in Guyana under sentence of death.

The Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal and the Chief Justice confirmed the death sentence on 30 January 1997.

In Nigeria, the sentence of death by stoning passed on Amina Lawal in 2003 was quashed after international condemnation.

It is illegal to impose a life sentence or the death penalty on a convicted child under the Juvenile Code.

On 1 January 1999, 53 prisoners remained under sentence of death and on 31 December 2003 the number was 56.

Because war torn areas tend to lack medicine and adequate health care services, being HIV positive is virtually a death sentence.

So Wang can expect no leniency at his trial, which will most likely end with a commuted death sentence and forced labor.

But she fights back, accidentally killing him. She faces a death sentence until attorney Meaza Ashenafi steps in to fight for her.

The author notes that Mr. Deolall has been on death row since November 1995, and that his sentence should have been commuted.

The code of criminal procedure provides that a death sentence can only be enforced after the plea for pardon has been rejected.

Statement (3) is manifestly incorrect in the light of the opening words of article 6, paragraph 2 In countries that which have not abolished the death penalty, sentence of death may be imposed .

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead

7.5 The author claimed that her son's right to have his death sentence reviewed by a higher tribunal according to law was violated.

The death penalty is in place for a limited number of especially serious crimes, and every individual who is sentenced to death has the right to appeal the sentence and to petition for clemency.

Ron Williamson. Ron was convicted of the rape and murder of a barmaid at a club, and served 11 years of a death sentence.

For Central Americans, the cost of drugs will soar, straining budgets and gutting health care. The result may be a death sentence for many.

Numerous former officials received the death sentence and tens of others spent the next 20 years in jail, before being pardoned from life sentences.

The Committee had been informed that for certain crimes, the death penalty had been replaced by a sentence of 25 years' deprivation of liberty.

Three pardons had been granted and eight persons remained under sentence of death on 31 December 2003, half the number on 1 January 1999.

(d) Eliminating the death penalty for persons suffering from mental retardation or extremely limited mental competence, whether at the stage of sentence or execution.

After all, a collapse in oil prices would be a death sentence for several new energy technologies, and, not incidentally, would increase demand for oil.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

Currently the death sentence was applicable to only two categories of crime aggravated homicide and terrorism, which together constituted 0.7 per cent of all crimes.

Elsewhere the reply stated There is not a public hearing in all circumstances in Thailand however every death sentence will be informed to the public .

In Morocco, the death penalty is mandatory for eight types of homicide, including beating and wounding leading to death without intention and perjury leading to a death sentence against an innocent person . Capital punishment remains the mandatory punishment in Trinidad and Tobago for murder and for treason.