Yet, more than 60 percent of later appeals from capital sentences in Federal courts have been successful.

Many communities may have accepted some or all of these claims, for they do not impose capital sentences.

People under a capital sentence may still be executed .

The study showed that of every three capital sentences reviewed, two were overturned on appeal.

Supporters and family of Davis, 42, hope that despite the outcome, his death will increase the opposition to capital sentences.

The law was an attempt to address the overwhelming racial disparity in capital sentences.

The court has not approved a capital sentence.

Under Alabama law, all capital sentences must by affirmed by review in higher court.

The court has dismissed 21 other capital sentences since the state's death-penalty statute was enacted in 1982.

There were times when he voted (mostly with the majority) to reverse capital sentences because of procedural errors.

If she's convicted you're conceding special circumstances, grounds for a capital sentence."

One Bahai leader was executed in March; two more now face capital sentences.

De Gaulle commuted 998 of the 1554 capital sentences submitted before him, including all those involving women.

Professor Streib calculates that one or two juveniles a year receive capital sentences.

Before any capital sentence was carried out, the condemned person was given a drug to render them senseless.

South Africa's death penalty remains morally and practically indefensible, even though commutation of this capital sentence is possible.

But she's deliberatin' an appeal of a capital sentence the noo, and ye understand why I can't break in on her."

Although given a capital sentence.

We would have asked for a capital sentence, death qualified the jury, but we didn't know all the facts," says Tannery.

Until the Supreme Court's recent ruling, however, there was some possibility that his and others' capital sentences might be found constitutionally invalid.

United States v. Wilson established that it is possible to reject a (conditional) pardon, even for a capital sentence.

The Anderson decision caused all capital sentences in the state of California to be commuted to life in prison.

He would sacrifice retributive justice for distributive justice - but only for capital sentences.

The Bush courts are free to proceed in secret, to withhold evidence from defendants and to deliver capital sentences if two-thirds of the judges consent.

The eighteenth century took a dim view of thievery; as little as a pound could incur a capital sentence.