Supreme Court reinstated state death-penalty laws in 1976.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Punishment] Reference

Texas + New admin is improving fairness of death-penalty system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Deterrence: Often the first argument of death-penalty supporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Penalty On Trial] Reference

Talking about death-penalty cases there, or … death-penalty cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Nice Guy] Reference

But the newspaper didn't call for passage of the death-penalty bill.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Reprehensible Misrepresentation'] Reference

Even now, Al Gore doesn't dare step out front on death-penalty issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Penalty On Trial] Reference

Supreme Court has labored hard to get out of the death-penalty business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anger And Ambivalence] Reference

Don Sundquist, a death-penalty proponent, scheduled a hearing for Monday.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unusual Mercy Plea] Reference

Under Clinton, the Justice Department has approved 175 death-penalty cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Race, Death And The Feds] Reference

The death-penalty opera is a hit, while "The Full Monty" is just plain deadly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crass Course] Reference

What is to be said about the official who inflicts the death-penalty on criminals?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference

Garza's lawyers plan to join with death-penalty critics in a campaign for clemency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Race, Death And The Feds] Reference

Experts say two questions weigh heavily when jurors must make a death-penalty decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should Mcveigh Die?] Reference

If he were guilty, of course he ought to receive the death-penalty for the crime of treason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference

But the White House -- and by extension, Gore -- may yet be drawn into the death-penalty debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Race, Death And The Feds] Reference

And there really -- this is not look like a death-penalty case at all, at least to me, number one.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2002] Reference

Mel Carnahan, a staunch death-penalty advocate, to commute the death sentence of Darrell J. Mease.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Grandfather] Reference

I still struggled with the death-penalty issue after I accepted the fact that we had to have trials.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Thought I Was Going To Die'] Reference

Virginia, with 86 executions since 1976, and Alabama, with 23, both have stronger death-penalty credentials.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death-Penalty Maze] Reference

It's often the death-penalty advocates who are opposed to what's been called "" Live at Five, Styx at Six. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death-Penalty Taboos] Reference

Another said that if death-penalty opponents used Yates to advance their cause, they would be making a mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: A Problem With The Messenger] Reference

But are they just buying time for Casey ` s new powerhouse death-penalty attorney to get caught up on the case?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2009] Reference

The only death-penalty - qualified attorney on the team walked off the case after butting heads with Jose Baez.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 13, 2009] Reference

It's interesting that Judge Carnes, among the majority, is a judge who has been very active in death-penalty case.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2005] Reference

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Now to a death-penalty case that is the focus of much attention in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2005] Reference

The verdict was read, as you heard, it was a unanimous yes on all questions for all three death-penalty eligible counts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2006] Reference

In February, Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder launched an internal study of the department's handling of death-penalty cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Race, Death And The Feds] Reference

Three hundred Fairfax residents have been summoned and will be questioned on their ability to rule fairly in a death-penalty case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Convicted killer Alfredo Prieto returning to Fairfax County court for resentencing] Reference

When The Arizona Republic first published Steve Benson's cartoon zinging death-penalty supporters (above), there was little comment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death-Penalty Taboos] Reference

It might be judicial activism by any other name, but it was in the service of getting the high court out of death-penalty regulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hands-Off Court] Reference

For years, death-penalty opponents and supporters have been working their way toward a moment in which each side would rethink things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Innocent Until Executed] Reference

We should also denounce the fact that the vast majority of the world's remaining death-penalty sanctioning countries are majority-Muslim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharia, the scare word] Reference

Admission to the EU is now contingent on ending capital punishment, which will force Turkey to abolish its once harsh death-penalty system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Penalty On Trial] Reference