Sentence examples for ahead of the executions from inspiring English sources

Ahead of the executions the prime minister, Kevin Rudd, was pushed to say that the bombers "deserve the justice that they will get".

The death penalty does not deter crime," said Josef Benedict, Amnesty International's deputy director for south-east Asia and the Pacific, ahead of the executions.

The corrections department said she turned down an optional sedative ahead of the execution.

Garcia, 35, apologized to Solano's relatives in Spanish ahead of the execution.

The Watley traders used information gleaned from the conversations to trade ahead of the execution of the customer orders, a practice known as "frontrunning".

The couple had agreed to get it all out of the way a full week ahead of the execution, to spend several happy hours together and part company well out of the shadow of Mason's last day.

A lawsuit filed by public defender Dale Baich last year challenged the constitutionality of Arizona's secrecy over capital punishment ahead of the execution of inmate Joseph Rudolph Wood, arguing that he and other plaintiffs had a 1st Amendment right to know how the state would execute them.

"We're sick of hearing about Carey Dean Moore, Steve Helgelandd, one of Maynard Helgeland's three children, said ahead of the execution.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Indonesian police have stepped up security ahead of the expected executions this week of three Islamic militants convicted in the 2002 Bali bombings.

The state of Georgia is scrambling to obtain a new supply of the sedative pentobarbital for use in lethal injections ahead of the scheduled execution of Warren Hill on Monday night.

On April 29th he seemed to fulfil both promises when Indonesia went ahead with the executions of eight convicted drug-smugglers, all but one of them foreign (see article).Their fates, which hung on the pen of the president, have strained Indonesia's foreign relations.