Komisarjevsky received his death sentence three months before the state repealed capital punishment in future cases.
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If the jury decides on a death sentence, the judge is bound by that decision.
Yet, a just-released report by FDLE investigators may prove to be a death sentence.
Health care hikes and additional taxation can be a death sentence for many smaller companies, however.
Lane was not eligible for the death sentence, because he was 17 when the shooting occurred.
Migrants can't be turned back, that could be a death sentence, so they're taken ashore.
In 1989, being diagnosed as HIV positive really did amount to an almost certain death sentence.
Legal experts independent of the case weighed in after the death sentence was handed down.
Workers also fear that losing a job means a death sentence, as treatment would stop.
There are currently 94 men and one woman under death sentence in the state.
Because the AIDS diagnosis is considered a death sentence, many do not seek treatment.
Nevertheless, the death sentence was upheld on appeal and the defendant has since been executed.
Jurors had deliberated since Tuesday on whether Arias should get a death sentence for the 2008 murder.
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As we saw with Arthur Andersen, an indictment alone can be a death sentence for a firm.
Muhammad was convicted last month of murder in another shooting, and the jury recommended a death sentence.
As things stand, the commission has no weapons between admonishments and the death sentence of licence withdrawal.
John Allen Muhammad was found guilty in the Washington sniper trial and faces a possible death sentence.
My Mom had received a bad mammogram, and my sixteen-year-old mind immediately saw it as a death sentence.
Mr Robinson was the first person to have his death sentence vacated under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act.
"Suspend the death sentence for two years for all cases that don't require immediate execution, " read the report.
Dr. Gosnell, 72 years old, faces a possible death sentence when the jury reconvenes next week to consider sentencing.
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The case next moves to the penalty phase, when jurors will weigh whether to give Gosnell a death sentence.
He has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and faces a potential death sentence if convicted.
The UK government says it too welcomes the verdict but not the death sentence handed down to Saeed Sheikh.
He was the first person in the city to receive the death sentence from a federal jury since 1954.
The death sentence was confirmed on Wednesday for Ali al-Taweel, and the sentence to life imprisonment for Ali Shamlo.
But Army rules prohibit a judge from accepting a guilty plea to charges that could result in a death sentence.
He is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill, a crime that carries a potential death sentence.
Some hope to build on arrangements in place for treating HIV (itself now a chronic condition, not a death sentence).
So, err, no, it would appear that the answer to the original question, is poverty a death sentence, is no.
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