Sentence examples for facing imminent execution from inspiring English sources

The suicide occurred despite close vigilance on death row, where guards check every 15 minutes on inmates facing imminent execution.

According to the international human rights organisation, Reprieve, two political prisoners in Bahrain are facing imminent execution and several more are on trial, largely due to confessions obtained through torture.

This "evidence" – which would immediately be thrown out of any court in Britain – is the reason that my beloved husband and the father of my children is facing imminent execution.

Then came Mike Hussey, Mr Cricket, whose abject form over the past year had left him perhaps one innings away from returning to the ranks of plain Mr. But as Johnson (Dr, that is, rather than Mitchell) is supposed to have said of a fellow facing imminent execution, it concentrates the mind wonderfully.

"While Rouhani was elected on promises of change and human rights reforms, there have been at least 125 executions since his inauguration on 4 August, with dozens of other prisoners sentenced to death or facing imminent execution," said a joint statement issued by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre.

Inside this notorious Bali prison are convicts found guilty of drug trafficking and facing imminent execution by a 12-man firing squad.

It is believed that the sentences have now been upheld, and that they now face imminent execution.

Ebrahimi, who shot dead her husband while he was sleeping, faces imminent execution, despite international laws prohibiting execution for crimes committed by juveniles.

He has not yet been able to tell their mother, or Ms. Li's 18-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, that Ms. Li faces imminent execution.

Ms Jabbari, who faces imminent execution, was sentenced to death in 2009 after what Amnesty called a "deeply flawed investigation and trial".

To experienced anti-death-penalty lawyers such as Stephen Bright, the president of the Southern Center for Human Rights, lawyers representing a client who faces imminent execution "have a duty to make every legal argument they can".