Sentence examples for before the executions from inspiring English sources

Days before the executions anonymous death threats were made against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Communities in the oil-rich region of Ogoniland say they feel just as marginalised and in need of work and development as they were before the executions of Ken Sand-Wiwa and eight other chiefs in November 1995.

Speaking hours before the executions, Australia's foreign minister, Julie Bishop, said she was "deeply disturbed" by Indonesia's handling of the matter and warned there "will have to be consequences".

The government is dismayed that its respectful pleas for clemency, or at least that legal appeals be exhausted before the executions were carried out, were rebuffed with such contempt.

In a statement before the executions, the UN high commission for human rights "called on Ghani to refer the cases back to the courts given the very serious due process concerns".

[Laura Secor notes: i.e., over the treatment of political prisoners even before the executions, as Montazeri argued for greater leniency; others were about the Iran-Contra affair, which one of Montazeri's relatives had leaked to the international press.] These issues between them even caused many of Ayatollah Montazeri's relatives to be imprisoned.

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It was the evening before the execution.

On the night before the execution, the weather cleared.

Ms. Thomas could not both witness the execution and visit Ms. Riggs before the execution.

Two hours before the execution, all visitors must leave the execution area.