1 Capital punishment was regarded as inhuman and immoral.

2 He argued in favour of capital punishment.

3 He advocates the return of capital punishment.

4 Most democracies have abolished capital punishment.

5 I'm strongly opposed to capital punishment.

6 Capital punishment is allowable only under exceptional circumstances.

7 They seriously believe that capital punishment is a deterrent.

8 I don't agree with capital punishment.

9 How can you justify the employment of capital punishment?

10 Capital punishment has no place in a modern society.

11 He's caved in on capital punishment.

12 There are strong arguments for and against capital punishment.

13 Evidence that capital punishment deters crime is pretty thin.

14 Capital punishment is an explosive issue.

15 We oppose capital punishment in/under any circumstances.

16 He was sentenced to capital punishment.

17 His views on capital punishment are unpalatable to many.

18 Capital punishment is a highly emotive issue.

19 He is strongly in favour of capital punishment.

20 Do you have capital punishment in your country?

21 People tend to have strong opinions on capital punishment.

22 He argued powerfully and persuasively against capital punishment.

23 Capital punishment is an emotive issue.

24 Do you believe in capital punishment?

25 I don't really believe in capital punishment, I'm just playing the devil's advocate.

26 The party is divided on/over the issue of capital punishment.

27 Some people say that capital punishment acts as a deterrent.

28 Congressman Saunders fired the opening salvo during a heated debate on capital punishment.

29 In the survey politicians came out overwhelmingly in favour of capital punishment.

30 The case of Harris has sharpened the debate over capital punishment.

1 Capital punishment was regarded as inhuman and immoral.

2 He argued in favour of capital punishment.

3 He advocates the return of capital punishment.

4 Most democracies have abolished capital punishment.

5 I'm strongly opposed to capital punishment.

31 Some people are in favour of restoring capital punishment for murderers.

32 I don't believe in hitting children.:Do you believe in capital punishment?

33 He is one of the leading proponents of capital punishment.

34 We betray the ideals of our country when we support capital punishment.

35 Public opinion is divided on the subject of capital punishment.

36 He moved an amendment limiting capital punishment to certain very serious crimes.

37 Capital punishment was still used in Britain as late as the 1950s.

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38 Capital punishment was unacceptable to the ancient church.

39 The state reinstated capital punishment in 1976.

40 In 1965, Britain abolished capital punishment.

41 We are morally opposed to capital punishment.

42 In civilized cultures, Vegemite is considered capital punishment.

43 But he purposely rejected stereotypical liberal stands on such basic issues as welfare and capital punishment.

44 Beccaria's reputation for humanity comes from the famous sections that oppose the use of torture and of capital punishment.

45 Her arguments are clearly slanted in favour of capital punishment, in spite of her religious convictions.

46 Outside the prison, demonstrators on both sides of the capital punishment issue cheered, cried and prayed.

47 For staunch opponents, there is mounting concern about a political and legal climate that more readily fosters capital punishment.

48 On the question whether on merits it would be desirable to abolish capital punishment Ministers were divided.

49 Among the protesters will be Laura Magnani, another veteran in the campaign against capital punishment.

50 That's what's expected tonight at the Oxford Union, when former hangman, Syd Dernley speaks in favour of capital punishment.

51 The victims' demand for capital punishment has boomeranged on them, provoking sympathy for the person they most abhor.

52 The abolition of capital punishment and reform of the law on homosexuality came about in a similar way.

53 This whole capital punishment thing is becoming a real pain in the neck for a civilized society.

54 Syd Dernley was a public hangman before the capital punishment was abolished in nineteen sixty-five.

55 Investigate the extent to which capital punishment is a deterrent to murder.

56 Similarly, one of the few obviously valid arguments in favour of capital punishment is that executed offenders never re-offend afterwards.

57 Her views on capital punishment, immigration, and the trade unions resemble those of the right-wing tabloid press.

58 Some people are demanding the return of capital punishment for murder.

59 Moreover, death caused by poisoning, the most pre-meditated of all murders, was exempted from liability to capital punishment.

60 This time Robbins made a grown-up movie about capital punishment.

61 Capital punishment does send out one reasonably clear social message.

62 You got an answer for this, or are you busy preparing your next rally against capital punishment?

63 Federal appeals judge Alex Kozinski, a Ronald Reagan appointee, recently attacked the legal machinery of capital punishment.

64 But capital punishment is not for me in that category: it is not self-evidently harmful, not self-evidently unjust.

65 He seems to become especially intense when questioning turns to the issue of capital punishment.

66 But it does not matter where issues of capital punishment and deterrence are concerned.

67 The immorality of capital punishment does not lie in the sympathy level of a particular convicted murderer.

68 There were a few men and women dressed in black( ), who waited as silent witnesses to the obscenity of capital punishment.

69 It multiplied capital punishment for the most wretched categories of offenders.

70 The back-to-back executions would quicken the pace of capital punishment in Maryland.

71 Capital punishment for murder was abolished in 1969 and repeated attempts to reintroduce it have been defeated by an ever-increasing majority.

72 It should change the argument about capital punishment and other aspects of the criminal justice system.

73 It called for a free vote on marijuana, and also for possible referendums on abortion and the restoration of capital punishment.

74 She was silent except for little violent outbursts about capital punishment and Iris Murdoch writing too much.

75 Our eagerness for capital punishment echoes the mentality of the old slave code.

76 The participating States reconfirm their commitments in the Copenhagen and Moscow Documents concerning the question of capital punishment.

77 Capital punishment Article 6 limits the circumstances in which capital punishment may be imposed.

78 He has opposed the poll tax in its original form, discrimination against homosexuals and capital punishment.

79 Late in life she campaigned against capital punishment, in alliance with William Allen of Guy's Hospital.

80 The minutes continued: The Cabinet then discussed the question of the abolition of capital punishment.

81 How would you characterize Meusault's view of capital punishment?

82 He long urged the abolition of capital punishment.

83 The precondition of compensation to offset the capital punishment is sincerely resipiscence of criminal.

84 Capital punishment is claimed to deter wrongdoing even better than lifelong confinement.

85 Some day, with additional two capital punishment a ask behead.

86 Critics in Congress and elsewhere faulted the Court's opinion for acknowledging "the overwhelming weight of international opinion" against capital punishment for under-age criminals.

87 Andy Williamson, Director of the Hansard Society's Digital Democracy program, says he's not surprised that capital punishment is topping thee-petition.

88 Of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, only the United States and Japan use capital punishment.

89 compassion's part that leads the up - holders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim. ...

90 For example, in California only criminal cases in which capital punishment has been imposed are appealable as of right to the state supreme court.

91 Have you tried pinning him down on the question of capital punishment?

92 I have to put teeth in my conviction that capital punishment is wrong.

93 Stoning was the Jewish means of capital punishment; crucifixion was the Roman means of capital punishment, and Paul knows this.

94 Does capital punishment come within the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment?

95 Capital punishment is executed to deprive a person of his life.

96 Breaking wheel or the Catherine wheel was a torture device used for capital punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern times for public execution by cudgelling to death.

97 Obligatory seppuku was a method of capital punishment for a samurai, who would be beheaded by a second once he had made an initial stab wound himself.

98 The discovery after awaking by coop jail and be about to sentence electric chair capital punishment.

99 This restoration included the rejection of oaths and capital punishment and the abstention from the exercise of magistracy .

100 During that time there have been repeated attempts to reintroduce capital punishment.

101 I put teeth in my conviction that capital punishment is wrong.