"punishment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- (The state has a capital punishment statute but has not executed anyone in decades.)
- In fact, the apparent hesitance on the part of the court to enforce the death penalty has prompted legislators to propose the constitutional amendment to strengthen the capital punishment statute.
- Four years ago the judge sentenced Lemuel W. Smith to death under the only portion of the state's capital punishment statute that had not yet been declared void.
- But some advocates of capital punishment statutes for younger offenders argue that the Court did not expressly preclude states from setting a younger age.
- New York is one of 14 states with no capital punishment statute.
- Massachusetts does not have a capital punishment statute.
- The review by The Times confirms that those patterns appear to continue under the new era of capital punishment statutes.
- In the aftermath of independence most states amended their criminal punishment statutes.
- But she held that that states may not execute persons for crimes committed at age 15 or younger "under the authority of a capital punishment statute that specifies no minimum age."
- Although Mississippi has the death penalty, prosecutors could not seek it because the capital punishment statute in effect at the time of Mr. Evers's murder was later ruled unconstitutional.
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