"capital" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Similarly, people who had faced capital prosecutions for crimes they committed as juveniles can now be sentenced, at worst, only to life terms.
- Last week, legislators passed a measure calling for a bipartisan commission to examine the cost, fairness and effects of capital prosecutions.
- The consultant wants to compare each death sentence with hundreds of murder cases across the state that could be the subject of a capital prosecution.
- There they picked up tips on the arcana of capital prosecution, like investigating a defendant's background and selecting a "death-qualified" jury.
- Coretta Williams said the family believed race was a factor in the capital prosecution.
- In 16 of the last 17 federal capital prosecutions, Judge Wolf wrote, juries rejected the death penalty.
- Until 2001, the policies said the absence of a local death penalty did not by itself justify a federal capital prosecution.
- A successful capital prosecution can make a prosecutor feel powerful, popular and righteous all at the same time.
- The Reagan administration, for instance, liked to prosecute pornography; the Clinton administration cared about guns; and the current administration has pushed for more capital prosecutions.
- The Justice Department has been sketchy in explaining the standards Mr. Ashcroft uses when he insists on a capital prosecution.
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