Sentence examples for execution for a from inspiring English sources

A Ku Klux Klansman whose killing of a black teen-ager ultimately bankrupted the KKK faction that incited the crime was executed early today in Alabama's first execution for a white-on-black crime since 1913.

Among the states with the death penalty, twelve have not carried out an execution for a decade or more, and another five have not executed anyone for at least five years.

Richard C. Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said death-row inmates sought alternative means of execution for a variety of reasons, one of them to demonstrate what they deem the barbaric nature of capital punishment, especially in states like Utah that only rarely carry out the death penalty.

The state parole board issued a stay of execution for a mentally ill murderer.

"We've not had an execution for a long time," one said.

He was on death row in Illinois, awaiting execution for a crime he did not commit.

A judge has denied a stay of execution for an inmate set to die by firing squad.

Of some 3,300 inmates of death row today, only two are facing execution for an offense that did not involve a killing.

Prosecutors had from the start built a case for execution for an attack that a Senate report called the worst act of terrorism on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001.

"We are still hearing the echoes of Franco," said José Antonio Martines Soler, editor of the Madrid newspaper 20 Minutes who had been kidnapped, tortured and subjected to a mock execution for an article he wrote during the Franco era.

However, this does feel like a stay of execution for an app that never took off.