111.   He said he would pass sentence on Friday.

112.   All that we plead for is that the courts should be given the power to decline to pass sentences which are offensive to their professional and moral consciences.

113.   After the sentence was first passed against Rushdie, the foundation offered one million dollars.

114.   After the sentence was passed down Wednesday, the court issued an arrest warrant for Jose Guillermo Medina, currently an air force general.

115.   But it passed no sentence, ruling that the killing had been a merciful act.

116.   But the appeal hearing, before a court at Jijel east of the capital Algiers, passed sentence of death.

117.   But the number of executions has declined as judges and justice ministers have become increasingly reluctant to pass death sentences.

118.   Clarke said he would seek an independent psychiatric assessment of Catts and take this into consideration when passing sentence.

119.   Curran stood head bowed and eyes closed as the judge passing sentence told him he had abused his trust and betrayed his clerical colleagues.

120.   Fifty-eight death sentences have been passed by military courts and two by the civilian state security court.