She is the only witness in her defense as the Arizona jury decides whether to sentence her to death for stabbing and shooting her onetime boyfriend.
Under Colorado law, as in other states that authorize capital punishment, that jury will first be "death qualified, " that is, purged of citizens whose faith or moral precepts would not permit them to sentence Holmes to death.
The judge dismissed four potential jurors because of their opposition to capital punishment. (This judge later served on South Carolina's Supreme Court, and landed in some hot water by professing to find racist jokes inoffensive and funny.) It took the jury less than three hours to convict Mr Elmore, and an additional 50 minutes to sentence him to death.
Although the jury in the earlier case declined to sentence the defendants to death, that determination does not bind a future jury.
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Mr Straw's most recent intervention was on 30 January when he contacted the chairman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole to urge them to commute the death sentence to a prison term and reiterate Britain's opposition to capital punishment.
COMMANDED, at some hour after 6:00 p.m. on the 17th day of February, 2004, at the Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville, Texas, to carry out this sentence of death by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause the death of said Cameron Todd Willingham.
Manson's death sentence was changed to life in prison after California's death penalty was overturned for a period during the 1970s.
In addition to the five acquittals, a sixth man, one of the village elders, had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment last week.
Or is he planning to reveal all to a jury which would have to decide on a death sentence in the hope that they will send him to prison instead?
And I think -- I don't have any problem saying that I think that conviction would lead to the death sentence.
That is tantamount to a death sentence for a corporation that lives on its integrity--it was, at any rate, for Arthur Andersen.
Although he was pardoned by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for making a full disclosure, Nofemela had his death sentence converted to life imprisonment for murdering the farmer.
He wants to slow the proceedings down, to give his fellow-judges and the jurors time to consider the gravity of their responsibility and perhaps to reconsider their authority to pronounce a sentence of death.
Yet, a just-released report by FDLE investigators may prove to be a death sentence.
Mr Robinson was the first person to have his death sentence vacated under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act.
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.
Grigson had previously used nearly the same words in helping to secure a death sentence against Randall Dale Adams, who had been convicted of murdering a police officer, in 1977.
It may well prove to be a death sentence.
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Up until now, anyway, undoing a death sentence was akin to political suicide for an elected district attorney or state attorney general, or for any state official with ambitions for re-election or higher office.
I've been able to travel this country even as this early - this young age and tell women twice my age, half my age, of different nationalities, colors, ethnicities, if you are ever diagnosed with breast cancer, it does not have to mean a death sentence.
In 1989, being diagnosed as HIV positive really did amount to an almost certain death sentence.
The case next moves to the penalty phase, when jurors will weigh whether to give Gosnell a death sentence.
He escaped a death sentence partly by agreeing to testify at the trial of the second man charged with the killing.
But they are popular, and many Quebeckers see them as a price worth paying to prevent a demographic death sentence for their culture.
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