Sentence examples for first attempt to execute from inspiring English sources

The first attempt to execute him, using wild bears, went awry when the beasts decided to nap.

"The first attempt to execute Willie Francis was unsuccessful because the police officer was drunk setting up the electric chair, which was passed around different Southern cities," Lamar said.

They could eventually clear the way for a fourth attempt to execute him.

Obviously a lot of different things have happened inside the Republican Party in the last four years, but to some extent you can see the G.O.P.'s anti-Obama, post-2008 strategy as an attempt to execute the first approach.

Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr.'s decision, announced Thursday, marks the first time the Obama administration will attempt to execute an accused terrorist in a federal court case.

It is quite another to do so and also attempt to execute a double back flip or a front flip.

The attempt to execute Wood had begun at 1.52pm, with sedation of the prisoner confirmed five minutes later.

Ohio's attempt to execute Romell Broom last month by lethal injection was the death penalty at its most barbaric.

It was a stroke of sheer genius, one that few professionals would concede was possible, let alone attempt to execute.

MATLAB will attempt to execute everything in the try block per usual.

PS -- In case anyone is a maniacal literalist, please do not actually attempt to execute any adulterers or anyone else.