Komisarjevsky received his death sentence three months before the state repealed capital punishment in future cases.
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With that virtual death sentence, Mr. Vahedi escaped to the U.S. in February 2010.
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How directly involved in violence must an individual be to receive a death sentence?
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.
Pakistan is a deeply conservative Muslim nation, where the punishment for blasphemy is the death sentence.
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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.
Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami has previously said the death sentence should be considered closed.
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.
If Facebook signifies existence, then being banned by the network can feel like a death sentence.
There are currently 94 men and one woman under death sentence in the state.
It is like a death sentence of my mother, but in slow motion to me.
Far from being honoured, she narrowly avoided a death sentence from the Communist authorities.
First, I humbly suggest a quick death sentence for traditional ratings paid for by issuers.
Nobody ever wants to see someone dying but when someone kills he deserves a death sentence.
Some wonder whether the death sentence was aimed at stopping her from revealing more.
Because the AIDS diagnosis is considered a death sentence, many do not seek treatment.
However, in all truth, what is the offense of these tourists that deserved a death sentence?
Nevertheless, the death sentence was upheld on appeal and the defendant has since been executed.
But a murderer's chances of suffering arrest, trial and the death sentence are minimal.
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.
Former Belgian ambassador to China Claire Kirschen last year described his punishment as a "slow death sentence".
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When a boss says to his employee, "I trust you completely, " it is the surest death sentence.
As things stand, the commission has no weapons between admonishments and the death sentence of licence withdrawal.
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