Sentence examples for execution of someone from inspiring English sources
The European Union called on Mr. Bush yesterday not to execute Mr. Cruz, saying the execution of someone who is mentally retarded violated international human rights norms.
Connecticut, Arizona and Florida have also enacted laws this year prohibiting the execution of someone who is retarded.
The United States is one of only a handful of countries that permit the execution of someone who was under 18 at the time of his crime.
"I know many Americans will question why the execution of someone who is clearly guilty of such a heinous crime should be delayed," Mr. Ashcroft said.
Of the 38 states that permit capital punishment, 13 have laws that prohibit the execution of someone who is mentally retarded; in New York that legislation was signed into law by Gov. George E. Pataki.
Mr. Beazley still has pending a motion before the Supreme Court to review his case on the merits, including the question of whether the constitution bars the execution of someone who was under the age of 18 when he committed the crime.
To anyone under 60, the concept of someone facing their own execution at the end of a trial is alien.
The state has let into its execution chamber someone who was not a member of the official execution team, a doctor who tried unsuccessfully to insert an intravenous line into an inmate's arm.
Since her execution during the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette has been held up as one of history's great cautionary examples of someone who had it all and lost it all, both a captive and a casualty of her unchecked appetites.
Just fast, cheap execution, assuming someone else accepts your price.
