Capital Punishment without Capital Trials in Japan’s Lay Judge System by David T. Johnson

“…By the end of 2010, lay judge panels had made five capital decisions, resulting in one life sentence, three death sentences, and one acquittal.This article examines a series of recent death penalty judgments under Japan's new lay judge system.…”
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Les papiers de Baya Hocine. Une source pour l’histoire des prisons algériennes pendant la guerre d’indépendance (1954-1962) by Sylvie Thénault

“…In 1958, a search of the prison of Barbarossa in Algiers led to the confiscation of the Journal, notes and correspondence of Baya Hocine, a young female detainee of 17 years, sentenced to death for an attack. Written in the intimate style of a personal diary, Hocine’s papers are a valuable source for the historiography of prisons during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). …”
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Between Excess and Subtraction: Scenographic Violence in Howard Barker’s Found in the Ground by Lara Maleen Kipp

“…Thematically, the play is rife with violence, such as former Nuremberg judge Toonelhuis’ consumption of the remains of high-ranking Nazis he sentenced to death, the continuous burning of books and the retelling of various murders by the war criminal Knox. …”
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À la recherche des « voix » des fallāhīn dans un dossier d’archives judiciaires égyptiennes by Anne Clément

“…Through the study of the legal file of Mikhīmar (a young fallāh or Egyptian peasant sentenced to death for murder in 1893), this article shows that an approach to the archives focusing on the material traces left by the process of composing and recomposing the file makes it possible to partially reconstruct the performance of the different actors of the legal process, and thereby helps to shed a new light on the colonial justice system at the turn of the 20th century. …”
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Edward Jurgens i Karol Ruprecht. Polacy z wyboru wobec polskich ruchów niepodległościowych w XIX wieku by Tadeusz Stegner

“…K. Ruprecht was sentenced to death in 1846 for his conspiratorial activities, but then pardoned at the very last moment before execution, and in 1863 he was a member of the National Government. …”
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Algérien en Nouvelle-Calédonie : Le destin calédonien du déporté Ahmed Ben Mezrag Ben Mokrani by Isabelle Merle

“…Ahmed Ben Mezrag Ben Mokrani, brother of the main leader of the Kabyl insurgency of 1871, and member of the prestigious Mokrani family, whose father had been Khalif of Medjana and an ally of the Bey of Constantine, was sentenced to death on March 27, 1873, for incitement to war and insurrectional facts. …”
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Anton Nilsson et l’écho d’une bombe. Malmö, 1908-1917 by Lars Berggren, Roger Johansson

“…Anton Nilsson was sentenced to death in a subsequent trial, but after extensive protests, also abroad, the death sentence was converted to life imprisonment. …”
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Wkład Tomasza Cranmera w rozwój angielskiej reformacji by Wojciech Medwid

“…He was charged with treason, found guilty and sentenced to death.…”
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Encoding Crime and Punishment in TEI: The Digital Processing of Early Modern Broadsheets from Vienna by Claudia Resch, Daniel Schopper, Tanja Wissik, Daniela Fasching

“…The sources are transcribed and encoded according to the TEI Guidelines, making use, in particular, of the namesdates module to capture essential information about the convicts sentenced to death. The following description gives an overview of the encoding schemes applied and the research possibilities resulting from the use of these methods, and outlines the functionalities of the planned open-access edition. …”
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Identifying the Prophetic Legal Ethos in the Death Penalty Provisions of the Indonesian Criminal Code by Basto Daeng Robo

“…Essentially, the arrangements pertaining to the death penalty are positioned as instruments for societal education. If a convict sentenced to death demonstrates genuine remorse and makes efforts toward rehabilitation, the imposition of the death penalty may be reconsidered in favor of life imprisonment. …”
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The Political Struggle of Fatin Rüştü Zorlu (May 1954- May 1960) by Tekin Önal

“…Zorlu has been put on trial in Yassıada with all other party members and sentenced to death. The execution of his sentence was carried out on September 16th 1961. …”
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METHAPHYSICS OF DEATH PENALTY by V. E. Gromov

“…Philosophical argumentation to justify death penalty is proposed as opposed to the common idea of inhuman and uncivilized nature of court practice of sentencing to death. The essence of the study is not to rehabilitate law-based murder but to explain dialectic relation of the degrees of moral responsibility of criminals and society nourishing evildoers. …”
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