Sentence examples for closer to executions from inspiring English sources

"Papua New Guinea has taken one step forward in protecting women from violence by repealing the Sorcery Act, but several giant steps back by moving closer to executions," Amnesty's deputy director for the Asia-Pacific Isabelle Arradon said in a statement.

"Time is running out for the woman known as the Khamis Mushayt Girl as she moves ever closer to execution.

With the unemployment rate dropping in July to its lowest level since December 2008, "I would say that the committee is now closer to execution mode, pondering the right time to begin reducing its purchases, assuming there is no intervening reversal in economic momentum in coming months," Fisher said.

That decision means that Hill's options would be limited, should he come close to execution again.

And in such a system, inmates can come close to execution without exercising all their legal options.

"The key issue, which is disturbing to people, is that they've seen inmates who may have been close to execution walk off from death row".

Ms. Lyons said there had been "a handful" of suicides on Texas's death row, but none so close to execution.

Some have come so close to execution themselves that they have heard judges or prison officials read aloud their death warrants, naming the exact date and time when they would face lethal injection or the electric chair.

The execution of a mentally ill man in violation of the US constitution has echoes with the recent case of Warren Hill, who came close to execution in Georgia last month despite the constitutional prohibition of the death penalty for people with intellectual disabilities.

In the 1990s, he came dangerously close to execution, first on August 17 , 1995and again on December 2 , 1999

As of this week, 139 individuals have been exonerated after being sentenced to die - and some came terrifyingly close to execution.