Sentence examples for execution for an from inspiring English sources
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.
Joe Hill, also called Joe Hillstrom, original name Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, (born October 7, 1879, Gävle, Sweden died November 19, 1915, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S ., Swedish-born American songwriter and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW); his execution for an alleged robbery-murder made him a martyr and folk hero in the radical American labour movement.
However, this does feel like a stay of execution for an app that never took off.
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.
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.
He is the first person to face execution for a federal hate crime conviction.
