Sentence examples for execution the first from inspiring English sources

Mr. McVeigh's execution, the first carried out by the federal government since 1963, is scheduled for 7 a.m.

Yet for all the symbolism and emotion surrounding the execution, the first by the federal government in nearly 40 years, Terre Haute has more practical concerns.

The execution, the first in France for two years, and the twentieth in the last 20 years, took place a few hours after President Giscard D'Estaing had refused to exercise his prerogative of mercy.

The execution, the first since the state reviewed and revised its lethal injection procedures, came after a flurry of appeals from Mr. Workman's attorneys, who unsuccessfully sought stays from the U.S. Supreme Court and the Tennessee Supreme Court.

The board of pardons and parole had received a letter on behalf of Pope Francis urging them not to allow Gissendaner's execution, the first since the pope's address to the US Congress last week in which he called on the United States to abolish the death penalty.

In Ohio, corrections officials presented Gov. Bob Taft with changes to the state's procedures, after Joseph L. Clark's execution this year, when workers struggled for 90 minutes to find a suitable vein for the lethal drugs, and in preparation for another execution, the first in the country since the Supreme Court ruling.

Flames of War closes with a massacre and a mass execution, the second seemingly staged specifically for the film.

Still, the attorney general, Leslie Rutledge, said she was disappointed that the executions, the first of which was scheduled for this week, remained on hold.

McVeigh's execution was the first federal execution in 38 years.

The Cybershake workflow is control flow dependent; thus, the second stage will execute only after the execution of the first stage.

The execution of the first command of a block results in the execution of all other block commands.