Example sentences for: penalty

How can you use “penalty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Post story quotes a Kaczynski family lawyer asking what purpose going for the death penalty serves "except to punish [brother] David for the rest of his life."

  • The paper quoted Amnesty International statistics showing that, out of a total of 193 countries in the world, 100 had abolished the death penalty.

  • USAT reports that white supremacist John William King was convicted of capital murder in Jasper in less than 2® hours and that the jury immediately plunged into the case's penalty phase, which could result in a death sentence.

  • The beginning of the trial of Russell Henderson, who's accused of beating Matthew Shepard to death in Laramie, Wyo., last year, coincides with more calls for hate-crime bills as well as for the death penalty among liberals who ought to know better.

  • In Spain, El País said that Ankara would be committing "a grave error" if it carries out the death penalty against Ocalan, since it has "an historic opportunity to exercise magnanimity and to lay the foundations of a reconciliation with the Kurds."


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