Sentence examples for execution is imminent from inspiring English sources

Human rights experts say such a gesture often signifies that an execution is imminent.

The United States Supreme Court has held that it is unconstitutional to execute insane people who cannot understand why they are being put to death or that their execution is imminent.

Noting that Mr. Berry's new federal-court case challenging lethal injection was not filed until Oct. 18, the appeals court said: "Well-established Fifth Circuit precedent is clear: death-sentenced inmates may not wait until execution is imminent before filing an action to enjoin a state's method of carrying it out".

In regard to Madison's particular alleged mental competency issues that stem from dementia, the appellate court cited previous Supreme Court rulings that noted such claims become "ripe for adjudication only when the petitioner's execution is imminent". .

Ms. Lawal's execution was imminent, the message warned; the Nigerian Supreme Court had already upheld the death sentence.

Often they were not told when they would be released and were led to believe that execution was imminent.

But even the most accommodating of countries have their limits.The Indonesian government came up against its own when Saudi Arabia beheaded an Indonesian maid on June 18th for stabbing her (allegedly abusive) employer to death, without so much as informing Indonesia's embassy that the execution was imminent.

BAGHDAD, Oct. 17 — The man known as Chemical Ali for ordering poison gas attacks against the Kurds in the 1980s has been flown by helicopter from a United States base to a site near a prison gallows in Baghdad, an Iraqi police official said Wednesday, suggesting that his execution was imminent.

Judges, however, have refused to hear those cases, saying it was premature to decide the issue until execution was imminent.

Fears that her execution was imminent were raised late last month when she was moved to another prison, but then quickly returned to her original lockup.

Rumors circulated that public executions were imminent, and many of the gathered residents expected that they would be carried out.