11.   Outside the city, sentiment among district attorneys leaned more strongly in favor of using the ultimate punishment.

12.   Read closely, it clearly demands that the ultimate punishment be reserved for systemic threats to the state, rather than the personal failings of a reckless individual.

13.   Robert Curley said Sunday he met with Middlesex District Attorney Thomas F. Reilly and asked him to seek the ultimate punishment for the perpetrators of this crime.

14.   Such pro-death penalty views are atypical of African-Americans, who traditionally have felt that the ultimate punishment falls unfairly on blacks.

15.   The report urged the United States to halt all executions until it can show that this ultimate punishment is doled out fairly.

16.   The ultimate punishment has become a quietly accepted fact of American life only in the past few years.

17.   There must be something about the murder, or the killer, that makes the killing fit for the ultimate punishment.

18.   These calls trivialize the ultimate constitutional punishment for official wrongdoing.

19.   This is the kind of horror that cries out for the ultimate punishment.

20.   Those who oppose the execution of the mentally retarded say they lack the moral culpability to justify their receiving the ultimate punishment.