Sentence examples for failed to kill a from inspiring English sources

This is not the first time — or even the first time this year — that a lethal injection failed to kill a convict humanely.

The only similar case in modern times, Mr. Dieter said, occurred in Louisiana in 1946, when electric shock failed to kill a convicted murderer, Willie Francis.

Mr. Nadler failed to kill a $6 million study of the project that Congress approved earlier this year as part of the largest public-works program in the nation's history.

Well, this was the first time since "lethal injection" became the norm that executioners failed to kill a condemned person during the course of a single execution session, however lengthy.

The state of Oklahoma botched one execution and was forced to call off another on Tuesday when a disputed cocktail of drugs failed to kill a condemned prisoner who was left writhing on the gurney.

When an initial shot failed to kill a dog that was the mother of the employee's family pet, she ran around with her "cheek blown off and her eye hanging out" until she was felled by a rifle with a scope, according to the report.

John goes so far as to say that a man who fails to kill a tyrant sins against himself and the whole body of the state, while he who frees a penitent and humble people from tyranny is blameless (Poli III 15 p211; VIII 20 n205).

Those bombings -- also directed by Mr. bin Laden, the F.B.I. contends -- failed to kill any Americans only because a detonator went off prematurely, disabling a huge truck bomb.

From Jan . 24to Feb. 14, a total of 17 suicide bombers took aim at one coalition member after another but failed to kill any of them, according to a compilation of reports from Afghan police and military officials, and from the American-led International Security Assistance Force.

And after Mr. Muhammad wounded -- but failed to kill -- a 13-year-old boy outside a middle school in Bowie, Md., in October 2002, Mr. Malvo felt a wave of relief, Dr. Schetky said.

But the drug failed to kill me, a result so interesting that my cardiologists wheeled me to a bed and started calling other hospitals.