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The following two laws gave certain offenses a mandatory death penalty.
Some states have passed laws imposing mandatory death penalties in certain cases.
The Court had struck down the mandatory death penalty because it took away discretion from the jury.
Under the terms of Canadian law at that time, he faced a mandatory death penalty if convicted.
New York was the last state to have a mandatory death penalty for premeditated first degree murder.
By then, however, a problem with the common-law mandatory death penalty had crept into the legal system.
Earlier this month a local court upheld the charges and imposed the mandatory death penalty the law requires.
Mandatory death penalty for murder was abolished in 1935.
In 1998 the mandatory death penalty was abolished, and the sentence is now up to life imprisonment.
On the same date, the Court held that statutes imposing a mandatory death penalty were unconstitutional.
Conviction here for armed robbery or drug trafficking carries a mandatory death penalty.
In cases of violence to a citizen's body there is a mandatory death penalty with automatic reprieve.
So far, the weapon that has attracted the most attention has been the mandatory death penalty.
The mandatory death penalty exists in Singapore for certain capital offences, including murder and drug trafficking.
There have been convictions in some of these cases, but no one has been executed under the law's mandatory death penalty.
There is a mandatory death penalty for convicted drug traffickers, regardless of the amount of drugs involved.
Mr. Tyler was tried for first-degree murder, under a law that carried a mandatory death penalty.
Malaysia has hanged some 100 people, at least 30 of them foreigners, since the mandatory death penalty for trafficking was introduced in 1981.
At any rate, whether there is in fact a customary international law rule that prohibits the mandatory death penalty is also far from certain.
At the sentencing stage, the mandatory death penalty precluded the court from considering the circumstances in which the offence was committed.
Malaysian legislation provides for a mandatory death penalty for convicted drug traffickers.
He expressed regret that those involved could not be convicted of high treason, which was still punishable by the mandatory death penalty.
The two other mandatory death penalty laws for life-term inmates, including New York's, were struck down by state courts.
In 1976, while he was awaiting execution, the Supreme Court declared the mandatory death penalty statute unconstitutional.
He disputed the historical evidence adduced in support of the claim that American juries dislike mandatory death penalties.