Sentence examples for execution warrants from inspiring English sources

They include former judges, police chiefs, attorneys general and governors who have signed execution warrants.

You signed four death warrants, or death execution warrants, while you were governor.

Mr. Ridge has been a firm supporter of the death penalty and has signed execution warrants as governor.

In his final, postwar, stint in office, from 1998 to 2000, he refused to sign execution warrants for prisoners on death row.

While confronting this procession of execution warrants, Herndon has also faced the prospect of losing her law license.

Presented with 303 execution warrants for convicted Santee Dakota who were accused of killing innocent farmers, Lincoln conducted his own personal review of each of these warrants, eventually approving 39 for execution (one was later reprieved).

Franklin's attorney, Jennifer Herndon, said earlier the execution warrant allowed it to be carried out anytime today.

"I was delivered an execution warrant in my cell seven times," he said in a statement on Tuesday.

The appeals court said that, under its own precedent, a late-filed challenge to a method of execution warranted automatic dismissal.

But prison officials faced with a midnight deadline to administer lethal drugs feared they could not follow the proper procedures before the execution warrant expired.

Judge Cynthia Stevens Kent, the trial judge who later had to sign Mr. Beazley's execution warrant, also asked the governor to commute the sentence to life in prison.