Capital Punishment: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. 114 ... April 10, 27, and May 1, 1981U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - 725 strán (strany) |
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Strana 374 - Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous : and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Strana 442 - ... committed deliberately and with the reasonable expectation that the death of the deceased or another would result; " (2) whether there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society...
Strana 326 - He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity : he that killeth with the sword, must be killed with the sword.
Strana 623 - The death penalty may not be pronounced against a protected person unless the attention of the court has been particularly called to the fact that since the accused is not a national of the Occupying Power, he is not bound to it by any duty of allegiance.
Strana 441 - Whether or not the defendant acted under extreme duress or under the substantial domination of another person. (g) Whether or not at the time of the offense the capacity of the defendant to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law was impaired as a result of mental disease or the effects of intoxication. (h) The age of the defendant at the time of the crime.
Strana 326 - For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die : but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cesar.
Strana 249 - Europe, has cooperative relations with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, and has observer status with the Organization of African Unity.
Strana 631 - Everyone's right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law.
Strana 633 - Every person has the right to recognition as a person before the law. Article 4. Right to Life 1. Every person has the right to have his life respected. This right shall be protected by law, and, in general, from the moment of conception. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.
Strana 552 - Right forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne ; But that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.