Sentence examples for condemned murderer from inspiring English sources

"How enviable a quiet death by lethal injection," Justice Antonin Scalia once proclaimed, as he contrasted the demise of a condemned murderer with that of his victim.

A very good Matthew McConaughey, wearing facial scars and getting down and dirty, and Zac Efron, trying hard to pull his weight, play New Orleans brothers trying to help save a condemned murderer.

Joyce Di Donato, in her company debut, stars as Sister Helen Prejean, and John Packard portrays the condemned murderer Joseph de Rocher, the role he created in the premier.

It examines a strange triangle involving a condemned murderer, the military captain who must carry out the death sentence and the captain's beloved wife, who makes it her mission to redeem the doomed man.

Ms. Kidman's risqué "Paperboy" scenes include a steamy jailhouse make-out session, sans physical contact, with Charlotte's fiancé, a condemned murderer (played by John Cusack), and an already much-discussed beach scene in which she urinates on a worshipful young man (Zac Efron) in an effort to counteract his jellyfish stings.

Condemned murderer Michael Jones was acting strangely and profusely sweating when guards escorted him in chains to the San Quentin medical unit that doubles as the psych ward on death row.

A man named Kaczynski might seem an odd leader for a group that wants to rally the public to the cause of condemned murderers.

When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall.

Recently, the sheriff's department announced it was submitting the DNA of Gacy and other condemned murderers who were executed in Illinois to a national database, in the hope of clearing the coldest cases across the country.

Indeed, the court had no business in the first instance relying so heavily on public sentiment when deciding an issue of life or death involving condemned murderers, a segment of the population that by definition is not held in particularly high esteem.

The law allowed condemned murderers to seek a sentence reduction to life imprisonment if they could prove that race played a major role in their cases.