Sentence examples for execution of a prisoner from inspiring English sources

NASHVILLE, Sept. 19 — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked next week's scheduled execution of a prisoner in Tennessee, ruling that newly revised lethal injection procedures were unconstitutional.

Only in one state, Connecticut, is the execution of a prisoner outlawed on the grounds that they were mentally ill at the time the crime was committed.

At one point, according to the indictment, Chucky ordered the execution of a prisoner, but when an ATU officer raised his gun, Chucky instructed him to cut off the man's head instead.

Armed conflict persisted through the winter, and Riel seemed to be in control until he made the colossal blunder of permitting the court-martialling and execution of a prisoner, Thomas Scott, one of a group of English-speaking Ontario settlers who opposed the rebel government.

Traditionally, the Great Bell was rung to announce the execution of a prisoner at Newgate.

Another word often heard is "closure" upon the execution of a prisoner.

The U.S. Supreme Court thwarted Arkansas' first attempt at an execution in 12 years by denying the state's request to lift the stay of execution for a prisoner.

He even flew back to Arkansas during the campaign to oversee the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, a prisoner with severe brain damage.

It would be the first execution of a federal prisoner in nearly four decades.

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His final work was a poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), inspired by the execution of a fellow prisoner.