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Death penalty
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Sentence of death, Recording of
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death sentence
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Prisoner under sentence of death
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capital punishment
capital punishment : death penalty
Murder
cases there referred to. One of the reasons given by the Courts in number of cases for imposing death penalty is that the murder is 'brutal', 'cold-blooded', 'deliberate', 'unpro-voked', 'fatal', 'gruesome', 'wicked', 'callous', 'heinous' or 'violent'. But the … situations and moreover, some judges may not regard this factor as having any relevance to the imposition of death penalty and may therefore decline to accord to it the status of 'special reasons', Bachan Singh v. State of
sentence
cumulative sentence : consecutive sentence in this entry ;also : the combination of two or more consecutive sentences death sentence : a sentence condemning the convicted defendant to death de·ter·mi·nate sentence [di-tər-mə-nət-] : a sentence for a … sentence [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion] 1
felony
a felony as a crime which carries a sentence of imprisonment for more than one year or the death penalty (where applicable). Other states, like Louisiana, define a felony as a crime which carries a sentence of death
Children
English Act. Registration of Birth, and Vaccination.--It is the duty, by s. 1 of the (English) Births and Deaths Registration act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 88), of the father and mother of very child born … (see supra), consolidates and amends in Part I. Thereof the law with regard to cruelty to children. Special penalties are provided (s. 1) for the ill-treatment of children under sixteen by persons over sixteen having custody of
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