Sentence examples for an execution was from inspiring English sources
The last time a federal case tried in New York ended in an execution was 1954.
A camera equipped with a telephoto lens could capture static images of the brown brick exterior of the federal lockup, but nothing about those images would particularize that an execution was taking place inside.
He and Mr. Said suggested that an execution was warranted, but as they pondered the prospect of Mr. Mubarak in the gallows, a sick man hanging, they offered alternatives: a sentence of death that is then commuted, or a stay in prison where he would eventually die.
"Unless the high-profile cases are going on, you don't really know until you read about it the next day in the paper or you hear it on the news that an execution was going on," said Heike Ness, 48, an insurance agent.
Kansas is one such state -- the last time it carried out an execution was 1965.
On another occasion, as an execution was approaching, I was visited by the defendant's lawyers.
A sanction is one thing, an execution is another.
The idea of broadcasting an execution is likely to strike many Europeans as particularly barbaric.
Human rights experts say such a gesture often signifies that an execution is imminent.
This diffusion was also an implicit acknowledgment that to participate in an execution is to risk being tainted.
