Meanings of automatic appeal in English

The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence in 2015 after an automatic appeal.

Now he faces death by lethal injection, pending an automatic appeal, for the rampage that also wounded 31 people.

That trial spurred another automatic appeal to California's top court, which in 1990 declined to alter his conviction or sentence, according to court records.

He currently resides on death row at the military's maximum-security facility in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas pending an automatic appeal required by the military justice system.

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