Article: VOA NEWS: FORMER CHADIAN PRESIDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH

Article: China to open court for death sentence cases in second instance
Xinhua News Agency;  December 8, 2005 ;     357 words ......and openness of trial of death sentence cases. Beginning...SPC) to reform its trial of death sentence case, after the...several misjudged death sentence cases, criticizing...attitude toward the trial of death penalty...

Article: Divided Supreme Court upholds Runge death sentence
SouthtownStar (Chicago, IL);  May 22, 2009 ;     366 words ......Thursday upheld the death sentence of a former Oak Forest...his request for a new trial. In a 4-to-3 vote...thus leading to his death sentence in 2006. The justices...sentencing phase of the trial. A female juror complained...Runge's argument that his death sentence ...

Article: SADDAM VERDICT: Death sentence is welcomed.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  November 6, 2006 ;     405 words ...The death sentence was welcomed, despite...legitimacy and scope of the trial process. Concerns...Stephens said the death sentence had the danger of...decision to impose the death sentence after a flawed and unfair trial. Andrew Burgin, spokesman...courts applying the ...

Article: A Death Sentence Affirmed; Saddam Hussein's trial was imperfect. But a perfect trial would have yielded the same result.
The Washington Post;  December 29, 2006 ;     388 words ......appeals body to affirm the death sentence of Saddam Hussein, the execution...weeks. Under Iraqi law, a death sentence must be carried out within...execution will cut short his trial for the crimes that would...murdered. What's more, his trial was in no sense the model...The reality ...

Article: May wants confession out of his trial; Faces death sentence for couple's murders
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Landon May, facing a death sentence for the murder of an Ephrata...from being used at his trial. May's capital murder trial...He is the first to go to trial of the four people charged...formerly of Akron, faces trial on two counts of criminal...allowed to be used when the trial ...

Article: Court upholds 'double jeopardy' death sentence; Supreme Court rules that a life-sentence prisoner can be put to death after a retrial jury calls for death penalty.(USA)
The Christian Science Monitor;  January 15, 2003 ;     588 words ......court upheld a death sentence for a Pennsylvania...in his second trial because a judge...following his first trial. At issue was...defendant's death sentence was barred by...Sattazahn's death sentence in the second trial. I recognize...

Article: Death Sentence Reinstated in 'Sleeping Lawyer' Case
The Washington Post;  October 28, 2000 ;     595 words ......panel today reinstated the death sentence of a defendant whose murder...voted to reinstate the death sentence. One of them was Judge...Burdine's court-appointed trial lawyer, Joe Frank Cannon...napping had an impact on the trial's outcome. The state's...participants in the 1984 ...

Article: DISMAY, DELIGHT AT DEATH SENTENCE RULING.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  May 7, 1999 ;     688 words ......threw out the death sentence of the man who...through his 1995 trial and to be handcuffed...restrained during the trial. When his former...in prison or a death sentence. ``Undeniably...reversal of his death sentence.'' In a separate...conviction or death ...

Article: Florida throws out death sentence for librarian.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL);  October 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Thursday threw out the death sentence for a former librarian...court ruled the trial judge should not...Germany for Coday's trial; they felt hindered...unable to attend the trial. But the Hullingers...attended the Broward trial. Gomez's family...anticipated that Coday's death ...

Article: Death sentence is thrown out: Former Broward librarian who killed ex-girlfriends to face judge again.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL);  October 27, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Court on Thursday threw out the death sentence for a former Broward County librarian...state's highest court ruled the trial judge should not have disregarded...they had expected that Coday's death sentence would not stand. We weren't wedded...

Article: Death Sentence Lottery
The Washington Post;  July 3, 1990 ;     699 words ......system of imposing the death sentence in this country is...death in Georgia in a trial that started with...at 2 a.m. with a death sentence. In between, the...sentenced to death at a trial where he was represented...as a "nigger." The death sentence was ...

Article: Appeals Court Upholds Saddam Death Sentence
NPR Morning Edition;  December 26, 2006 ;     629 words ......Appeals Court Upholds Saddam Death Sentence Host: RENEE MONTAGNE Time...court in Iraq has upheld the death sentence for Saddam Hussein, and said...mean that Saddam's second trial for genocide against Iraqi...groups who said the first trial was improper. It's also expected...from a ...

Article: Justices hear case alleging subpar legal representation; Suprme Court: Cases resulting in death sentence often are blamed on inferior counsel
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  March 26, 2002 ;     614 words ......to save him from a death sentence in a 20-year-old case...got bad legal help at trial. The general issue...jury to spare Cone a death sentence. Dice gave a brief...prosecutor requested a death sentence. Dice said almost nothing...

Article: Serial killer seeks a lifeline: `NIGHT STALKER' APPEALS DEATH SENTENCE, CLAIMING A FAULTY DEFENSE.
San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA);  June 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ......challenge to his death sentence is reaching the...controversial behavior at trial are at the heart...to get Ramirez's death sentence set aside. Ramirez...represent him in a trial that dragged on...the outset of the trial, a Los Angeles...qualified to handle a death ...