Sentence examples for failed assassin from inspiring English sources

The failed assassin, Georg Elser (Christian Friedel), is apprehended and tortured.

GLENO, East Timor — Gastão Salsinha, retired rebel and failed assassin, says it is probably politics that explain why he is free to roam East Timor's cloud-covered hinterlands rather than languish in prison.

GLENO, EAST TIMOR — Gastão Salsinha, retired rebel and failed assassin, says it is probably politics that explains why he is free to roam East Timor's cloud-covered hinterlands rather than languishing in jail.

Anyone who has been subjected to an introductory photography theory course will remember Roland Barthes's famous meditation on Alexander Gardner's 1865 wet collodion picture of the devastatingly handsome failed assassin Lewis Payne, which was shot before the kid was taken to the gallows: "The photograph is handsome, as is the boy..

Anyone who has been subjected to an introductory photography theory course will remember Roland Barthes's famous meditation on Alexander Gardner's iconic 1865 wet collodion picture of the devastatingly handsome failed assassin Lewis Payne, which was taken before the kid was taken to the gallows: "The photograph is handsome, as is the boy..

And Dakota Fanning, who's set to play Manson follower and failed presidential assassin, Squeaky Fromme.

In the latest case, the killing went off smoothly, but the assassins failed to escape undetected.

So far, investigators have, apparently, failed to find her assassin or the person who ordered her death.

They have also failed to catch her assassin – who slipped into Politkovskaya's building and then shot her four times as she emerged from the lift.

Russian investigators have so far failed to catch her assassin who was seen on CCTV slipping into her building wearing a baseball cap.

His brooding, Tom-Cruise-like face winced at the flashback-like images: Moe Green getting shot in the glasses, then all that blood glooping out; Don Altobello, brought down by poisoned cannolis, when so many assassins had failed; that poor horse, who had his head cut off, and then barely survived the operation to reattach it.