Sentence examples for execution last year from inspiring English sources

Christina, the daughter of the Oklahoma Republican governor who oversaw a botched execution last year, seems an unlikely friend.

Courts in Texas repeatedly rejected Mr. Woods's claims of impairment, although the state's highest criminal court halted his execution last year to allow more hearings.

Mr. Ryan had been asked to grant a stay of execution last year for a man convicted of a brutal slaying and mutilation.

In Oklahoma, officials have still not resumed executions after authorities used the wrong drug to carry out one execution last year and nearly used an incorrect drug months later.

The Potomac Theater Project, which presented Jan Maxwell in Howard Barker's "Scenes From an Execution" last year, will return to the Atlantic Stage 2 theater for its latest repertory season.

Oklahoma's lethal-injection process was also the focus of a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the state's use of midazolam, a sedative used in the drawn-out Oklahoma execution last year and two others that went awry.

Only 1.1percentt of women are eventually executed, including the execution this week of Gissendaner.

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Connecticut has had just one execution since 1960.

It has not had an execution since 1927.

EARLIER this month, Georgia conducted its third execution this year.