And he knew one wrong turn was a death sentence.
The final death sentence always comes from the top level.
Which wasn't a choice so much as a death sentence.
Lake said to himself, as if he'd just been given his own death sentence.
Many death sentences are never reported in the press, however.
Try to look a little less as if it were a death sentence, will you?
So simple a thing as that gave the man an early death sentence.
And it would only have brought a death sentence on my head in any case.
For him and many others, it was a death sentence.
If we all weren't under death sentence already I would not even have considered this plan.
People under a capital sentence may still be executed .
The study showed that of every three capital sentences reviewed, two were overturned on appeal.
The law was an attempt to address the overwhelming racial disparity in capital sentences.
Yet, more than 60 percent of later appeals from capital sentences in Federal courts have been successful.
There were times when he voted (mostly with the majority) to reverse capital sentences because of procedural errors.
The court has dismissed 21 other capital sentences since the state's death-penalty statute was enacted in 1982.
Many communities may have accepted some or all of these claims, for they do not impose capital sentences.
The court has not approved a capital sentence.
Under Alabama law, all capital sentences must by affirmed by review in higher court.
Supporters and family of Davis, 42, hope that despite the outcome, his death will increase the opposition to capital sentences.