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Death penalty is waiting for him.
Tom was facing the death penalty.
We should do away with the death penalty.
The man is liable to the death penalty.
The death penalty was done away with last year.
We must abolish the death penalty.
We should abolish the death penalty.
His crime deserved the death penalty.
They should face a penalty for their crimes.
The death penalty is final and irreversible.
I ask your soul and consciousness: Would life be worth living without the death penalty?
He advocated abolishing the death penalty.
I thought the death penalty should be abolished.
That the death penalty exists is less indicative of our civilization than that hangmen can be found.
Death penalty has been restored in this country.
I am against the death penalty.
The penalty for spitting is five pounds.
The death penalty should be abolished.
The death penalty has been done away with in many states in the USA.
He advocated abolishing death penalty distinctions.
Tom believes that the death penalty should be abolished.
In the 90s, Ireland, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland and Georgia abolished the death penalty.
According to Belarusian laws, not having a portrait of President Lukashenko in one's apartment or house is punishable by the death penalty.
The European Union has abolished the death penalty.
Movie subtitles
From 1 500, anyone in China found building a ship with more than two masts was liable to the death penalty.
Depending on the practice in that country, the death penalty was commuted to perpetual detention.
The penalty for both offenses is death.
You undertook to bear that penalty.
Well, whatever way one lives, there's a penalty, I suppose.
The penalty for which is death by hanging.
You know the penalty for desertion, mister?
And they'll keep on as long as the penalty for running it is no more than for breaking a bottle.
I can only add that it's the public's misfortune that the law under which you were convicted doesn't carry a heavier penalty.
You know the penalty if you fail.
I suppose you realize the penalty for killing the king's deer is death.
May not my little - It would make the penalty to your aunt.
I've paid the penalty.
Do you know the penalty for perjury?
By the way, you happen to remember what the penalty is for desertion?
The crime is treason and the penalty is death.
You know the penalty for pig-napping?
Tom my boy, you knew the penalty for pinapping.
He paid the penalty for his foolishness.
You know what the penalty is for murder in this country?
Well, the penalty for murder is death. - That wasn't the idea. - The idea?
You know the penalty for desertion.
You see, the new law threatens all. of us. with the death penalty.
All relatives of such accomplishes. are subject to the same penalty of death.
You see, Mr. Holmes, losing the game always carries a penalty, sometimes greater than others.
Come, madam, you must pay the penalty.
Because of the failure of the State.. To offer proof beyond the circumstantial evidence which has convicted you.. I withhold the death penalty..
Don't you know there's a penalty for false imprisonment?
Order to stop the penalty, oh lord!
I ask that you consider the highest penalty possible for the accused.
You should understand that there's a penalty for riding trains without tickets and with servicemen. We still have a job to do, you know.
We're contracted to be done by 2 months. And there'll be a penalty for delays!
You know the penalty for blackmail?
An act of treason for which the penalty is death.
And overtime along with the penalty pay, buys a load of groceries.
And if loving you is a crime, then I'm willing to pay the penalty.
News and current affairs
Opponents of the death penalty also rely on utilitarian arguments.
The death penalty is irreversible.
Moreover, abolitionists assail the deterrent effect of the death penalty.
So the death penalty debate boils down to an exchange of conflicting ethical and utilitarian views.
I, for one, believe that the death penalty radically negates the doctrine of human rights, which is founded on respect for life and the dignity of human beings.
But, whether or not you oppose the death penalty, two lessons can be drawn from the debate.
The second lesson is that the death penalty debate should not absorb all our attention.
In short, opposition to the death penalty cannot be an end in itself, for it is only one element of a more general fight for human dignity.
If something of such severity has happened that a minister finds it impossible to defend them, they may have to pay the penalty, but the minister still must assume responsibility.
When football matches - at least those that must produce a winner - end in a draw, a penalty shoot-out must resolve the matter, as this World Cup has demonstrated so dramatically.
It required the signatory countries to allow refugees who reached their territory to stay there, without discrimination or penalty for breaching immigration laws.
In the United States, individual states that follow unsound fiscal policies face a penalty.
Omit either a market penalty now for behavior that may become reckless or the institutional levers that give a voice to future generations, and you run grave risks - perhaps not today or tomorrow, but someday, and for the rest of your life.
But if lotteries, subsidies, and other devices fail to control tax evasion, the Chinese have another method: the death penalty.
Creditors in cases like that of Argentina need to be made to pay a penalty.
In neighboring Slovakia, the penalty for personal possession is, as in Poland, up to three years.
Some kind of penalty or subsidy thus has to be applied to encourage banks to issue them.
With German leaders insisting on charging penalty rates for providing assistance, the crisis festered - and the rescue costs continued to grow.