Sentence examples for avoiding execution from inspiring English sources

And the article on death-penalty jurors continued to draw correspondents, many of them asserting that the caliber of the lawyer is key to avoiding execution.

In 1598 Jonson killed the actor Gabriel Spencer in a sword fight, avoiding execution only by being able to translate from a Latin Bible.

The series is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 1603), and sees the principal character, Edmund, Lord Blackadder, as a Tudor courtier attempting to win the favour of the Queen while avoiding execution by decapitation, a fate that befell many of her suitors.

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He narrowly manages to avoid execution and has the rebels who were to be executed alongside him freed, an uncharacteristically humane act for a character usually portrayed as a liar, a bully and a scoundrel.

Goering avoided execution by ingesting cyanide just before the hangings.

It will be his last chance to avoid execution.

Sneed struck a plea deal and indicted Glossip to avoid execution himself.

1969: To avoid execution, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. and gets 99 years.

Pierre is imprisoned by the French, and avoids execution by sheer luck.

Bowman, desperate to avoid execution, clearly wants something from her, but what it is she isn't sure.