But now, under a subsequently enacted death penalty statute, we are drifting backward and resuming federal executions by putting to death McVeigh.
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The Supreme Court ruled in 1986 that putting to death an insane person would violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Rather than putting to death the captured Ming soldiers and administrators, he magnanimously provided ships and supplies to send them back to China.
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Attorney James Ellis didn't provide a number, but he said there are clear moral concerns about putting to death mentally retarded killers.
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Bank notes and coins will not hit the street until 2001, putting to death the German mark, the French franc and the Italian lira.
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Though Texas leads the country in executions, Arkansas is the only state to revive the practice of putting to death more than one prisoner at a time.
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Having heard of the persecutions of Jews by Byzantine emperors, Dhu Nuwas retaliated by putting to death some Byzantine merchants who were traveling on business through Himyara.
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Goods and chattels belonging to the King's subjects he declared forfeited, and he announced his intention of exiling or putting to death all born in England.
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Russia ranked third in the world in number of executions in 1996, putting to death as many as 140 prisoners with a shot in the back of the head.
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Tarquin commenced his reign by refusing to bury the dead Servius, and then putting to death a number of leading senators, whom he suspected of remaining loyal to Servius.