Sentence examples for execution off from inspiring English sources

After two hours, the then governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland, called the execution off.

The defense argued that Admiral MacDonald should have taken execution off the table from the start because the C.I.A. tortured their clients.

"While we do believe current October quarter forecasts are doable in light of low expectations and improved execution off a messy fiscal third quarter, the stock has realized a relief bounce (15% gain since mid-August) and we're taking money off the table," it said.

Several guards had requested the day of Glossip's execution off.

And the DOJ letters are what have really thrown this execution off schedule.

"We thought we were poking fun at ourselves," he added, "but clearly the execution was off and the joke didn't come through".

In the most gruesome cases, prisoners have actually had their executions called off mid-procedure.

The justices cited and applied Wilkerson's and Kemmler's cases as if their executions went off without a hitch.

At a key moment in Into the Abyss (2011, Revolver, 12), a quietly metaphysical inquiry into the awful realities of senseless murder and state-sanctioned execution, an off-camera Werner Herzog asks an apparently self-possessed prison chaplain to "tell me about an encounter with a squirrel".

On Tuesday, 38-year-old convicted killer Clayton Lockett struggled in agony for 40 minutes, "writhing, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow " before the execution was called off, according to the Associated Press.

After the execution was called off, it was later revealed that Warner had been executed with the same wrong drug in January 2015.