How to Use capital punishment in a Sentence

capital punishment

noun

• Gilmore was the first inmate put to death after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on capital punishment.
  — Louie Estrada, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
• The latter change is meant to allow the state to bring back capital punishment after more than a decade.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Today, the politics of capital punishment also have begun to shift in some parts of the state.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Sign up Glossip’s case reads like a road map of the many flaws that afflict American capital punishment.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
• While Daybell could face the death penalty, the judge ruled Vallow Daybell would not face capital punishment if convicted in the deaths of the children.
  — Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2023
• The shooter's guilty plea on state charges may reduce the likelihood of capital punishment.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2023
• Japan and the United States are the only two countries in the Group of Seven advanced nations that retain capital punishment.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, ajc, 14 Mar. 2023
• Most of the families of those who were killed supported the decision to seek capital punishment.
  — David Nakamura The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2023
• The fight against capital punishment stood at the core of his lifelong defense of human rights against oppression and cruelty.
  — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• By contrast, not a single one of the 34 firing squad executions was found to have been botched, according to Sarat, who has called for an end to capital punishment.
  — Michael Tarm, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Areas of the South where lynchings were more common now have higher rates of capital punishment, white-on-Black homicide, and prison admission.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
• The jury filled out an 11-page verdict form and found that Bowers met baseline criteria for capital punishment.
  — Carolina Gonzalez, NBC News, 13 July 2023
• In his view, this causes capital punishment to violate due process.
  — Ron Matthias, The Mercury News, 20 Apr. 2024
• Massachusetts does not have the death penalty, but Tsarnaev was charged with crimes in the federal court system, which allows for capital punishment.
  — Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2023
• Virginia, long one of the country's busiest death penalty states, ended capital punishment in 2021, becoming the first state of the former Confederacy to do so.
  — CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
• The work’s source is a 1993 memoir by Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun and prominent opponent of capital punishment.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• As the nation’s use of capital punishment continues its decades-long decline, that’s an increasingly rare outcome, even in Texas.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• This would be the second execution in Florida this year after a pause on capital punishment dating back to 2019 was resumed.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2023
• New York does not have capital punishment and hasn’t executed anyone since 1963, but Saipov’s trial is in federal court, where a death sentence is still an option.
  — Larry Neumeister, ajc, 20 Feb. 2023
• New York state does not have capital punishment, but federal prosecutors are seeking death as part of a separate hate crimes statute.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 13 Jan. 2024
• By equal measure, victims' rights advocates and capital punishment supporters are outraged by the injustice that families will have to through it all again in court.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
• While some express opposition to capital punishment, others look to it for some semblance of closure or justice.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 26 June 2023
• Sirhan originally was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life when the California Supreme Court briefly outlawed capital punishment in 1972.
  — Julie Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
• The number of people sentenced to death each year has declined over the past two decades in Texas and across the country as the cost of prosecuting and defending death-penalty cases has ballooned and public support for capital punishment has dropped.
  — Keri Blakinger, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Virginia, long one of the country's busiest death penalty states, ended capital punishment in 2021, and lawmakers have since defeated legislative efforts to bring it back for certain crimes.
  — Denise Lavoie and Sarah Rankin, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• Under the law, a unanimous verdict was required for capital punishment.
  — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• But details about the review’s findings were not released, and critics have said an outside agency should have been tasked with evaluating the state’s capital punishment protocols.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 19 July 2023
• But details about the review's findings were not released, and critics have said an outside agency should have been tasked with evaluating the state's capital punishment protocols.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 20 July 2023
• Florida law now requires a unanimous jury vote for capital punishment, although that could be changed this year by the state Legislature.
  — Curt Anderson, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2023
• The decision to impose capital punishment had to be unanimous.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 3 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024