In the case of premeditated killing, life imprisonment is the appropriate sentence if a sentence of death is not imposed.

在预谋杀人罪中，如果不用死刑的话，判以无期徒刑是非常合适的量刑。

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In other words, any case in accordance with the listed eight serious circumstances is fit for death sentence.

也就是说，凡是符合法定的八项加重情节的，都可能适用死刑。

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Though Iran's Supreme Court quashed the death sentence in February 2003, the case was promptly sent back for retrial by the very court that ordered the execution.

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Legal experts independent of the case weighed in after the death sentence was handed down.

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Although the jury in the earlier case declined to sentence the defendants to death, that determination does not bind a future jury.

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