Sentence examples for execution news from inspiring English sources

As the clocked ticked down to the execution, news that Mr. McVeigh had finally offered an apology to the victims was reported on national television.

You report the exchange between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush regarding the hypothetical case of a pregnant woman facing execution (news article, July 18).

He wrote a last statement to prison officials which said, "You are killing a (sic) innocent man today"; it was read out at a post-execution news conference.

As a psychologist, I am profoundly disturbed by the planned execution of Timothy J. McVeigh (news article, May 2).

Jackie Reich, 45, said she heard about the execution on the news.

"His execution is great news for all Iraqis," said Fakhri Karim, an adviser to President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd.

The book accuses his political foes of trying to "criminalize" him for a party-financing scandal and complains of a "public execution" by the news media.

This was an execution, not a news conference, and when it was over, as everybody was walking out of his office, the principal owner looked around and said, "Nobody ate any sandwiches".

Duane Edward Buck had already eaten his final meal and was waiting to be taken to the execution chamber when news of the last-minute legal decision broke, shortly after 6pm on Thursday.

It was a private execution, but the news spread around the prison state.

Some of the paintings are inspired by long-ago executions, described in news clippings — like the plates she did about two black boys, ages 15 and 16, sent to the electric chair in Mississippi in 1947 on murder charges.