Sentence examples for avert execution from inspiring English sources
But Kevin McNally, a death penalty defense lawyer based in Kentucky, said the Justice Department practice in previous administrations generally permitted federal prosecutors to make plea deals that would avert execution.
Lamason discussed the information at length with Yeo-Thomas, Burney and Robert and they concluded there was little that could be done to avert the mass execution.
Two Federal judges today averted a double execution by the state of Florida, granting indefinite stays to two convicted killers, Raymond Stone and Robert Parker.
There was no indication whether the kidnappers had re plied to a proposal last night, by Antonio Cardinal Caggiano, the primate of Argentina, that he meet with them for talks aimed at averting the threat ened execution of General Aramburu.
The sheer sadism of the execution scene may cause you to avert your eyes; though the king's despatch gives unpleasantly literal meaning to the term poker-faced.
DBI provides caching for database handles and queries, which can greatly improve performance in long-lived execution environments such as mod perl, helping high-volume systems avert load spikes as in the Slashdot effect.
A life sentence averts a lengthy process of appeals and a long delay before a possible execution.
Arriving on September 18, he made every effort to avert war with Great Britain, but the invasion of Belgium by the French, followed by the execution of Louis XVI in January 1793, made war inevitable.
Optimising design and execution of quality improvement programmes is clearly necessary for many reasons, not least to avert the risk of damaging the credibility of such programmes as a whole.
