Sentence examples for execution is pending from inspiring English sources
Bucklew's execution is pending as Missouri faces a new legal challenge brought by the Guardian, Associated Press and the state's three largest local newspapers over the secrecy it has imposed on its lethal injection procedures.
Yet the death penalty is the wrong punishment — not just for low-profile murderers, but also for notorious ones, such as Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose execution is pending, or Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh — whose execution The Times initially agreed with but then, 11 years later, realized was wrong. .
Bills that would halt executions are pending in 12 states.
Dale Baich, the lawyer for Charles Warner who also represents the three inmates whose executions are pending in Oklahoma, said he would now be pressing for stays of executions in all their cases.
Mr speaker, we halted his execution, it is pending for now, and there has also been an inquiry ordered on that.
Mr. Leal, a Mexican citizen, has petitioned the Supreme Court for a stay of execution, while a bill is pending in Congress that would give him the right to a hearing about the violation of his rights under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
"If we're getting to the point where we're short on time — it's 6 30 or 6 15 for a scheduled 7 o'clock execution — I will call my contact" at the state attorney general's office to see "whether they're going to go forward with the execution while the case is pending or if they're going to hold off and wait," Mr. Bickell said.
The State Court of Criminal Appeals set an execution date for a Mexican inmate whose case is pending before the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands.
