How to Use the death penalty in a Sentence

the death penalty

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• The use of the death penalty in the United States has been on the decline for a decade.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• And the shift away from the death penalty really comes in the mid-2010s.
  — Vox Staff, Vox, 5 June 2024
• Darrow, a staunch critic of the death penalty, agreed to take the case.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2024
• Jennifer Faith took a plea deal to avoid the death penalty and was sentenced to life in prison.
  — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
• That's due to common-sense gun laws, not the abolishment of the death penalty.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Wisconsin was the first state to abolish the death penalty in 1853.
  — Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2024
• West Virginia is one of 23 states that has abolished the death penalty.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• In the 1990s, prosecutors sought the death penalty in his case.
  — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• The Daybells could face life in prison or, in the case of Chad Daybell, the death penalty, if convicted.
  — Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
• The jury voted 8-4 to recommend the death penalty to a judge.
  — Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
• Steve Goncalves, the father of Kaylee Goncalves, has pushed for the death penalty for Kohberger if he is found guilty.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2023
• He had been expected to receive at least 30 years but avoid the death penalty.
  — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• As remorseless killers who had taken a life in cold blood, the two deserved the death penalty, in his view.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2024
• The state has ramped up its use of the death penalty, executing four people last year and a man last month.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024
• Instead, only eight out of 12 jurors would need to vote to impose the death penalty.
  — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
• In 2004, the New York Court of Appeals abolished the death penalty, and there is currently no one on death row in the state prison system.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• The only issue is whether he will be declared insane, which would save him from the death penalty.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
• There is no question that what the defendant did deserves the death penalty.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• In debates about the death penalty, one figure looms large: Richard Glossip.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jan. 2024
• Nelson said her office intends to seek the death penalty.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
• Some protesters called for the perpetrators of the crime to be given the death penalty.
  — Sheikh Saaliq, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024
• Michigan does not have the death penalty, so the sentence imposed by Judge Kwamé Rowe was the harshest available.
  — Anna Betts, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• As part of their plea deals, the state of Ohio agreed to drop the death penalty as punishment for them, along with Billy and George Wagner.
  — The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2024
• Demons, who faced the death penalty if convicted, pleaded not guilty.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2023
• Smith faces the death penalty for helping to kill Elizabeth Sennett in March 1988.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• What the plaintiffs’ counsel are asking for here is the civil equivalent of the death penalty.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• Over the years, voters have decided to keep the death penalty when asked via ballot measures.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• Crusius is still set to be tried in a state case against him, where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
  — Ashley Killough, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
• His last-minute appeal to Lincoln, seeking life imprisonment instead of the death penalty, went nowhere.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
• Leroy said the appellate courts will consider decisions made during the trial, state law and the humanity of the death penalty.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024