Its mandate was enlarged through the adoption of its present statute.
It offers both the prosecution and the defense certain patterns, certain approaches, certain tactics in regard to the present statutes.
But the court's majority said, "Under the present statute, the death penalty may not be imposed."
All powers of the State are derived from the nation, and exercised according to the principles and rules laid down in the present statute.
The executive authority is vested in the King, who, will exercise it in accordance with the provisions of the present statute.
In such cases the procedure set out in articles 35 and 36 of the present statute shall be followed.
The present statute is directed only at a method of abortion, rather than at preventing any woman from obtaining an abortion.
The decision left the rest of the law in place, but it said that "under the present statute, the death penalty may not be imposed."
The present statute specifies both process and method as follows:
"We do not think the present statute or the proposed reauthorization meets the appropriate constitutional tests," he said.