Sentence examples for first to be executed from inspiring English sources
Gilmore was the first to be executed since the Supreme Court declared all existing death-penalty statutes unconstitutional in 1972.
A C program has one or more procedures of which the first to be executed is called main, and the others are "subroutines" or "functions" if they return a value.
It notes that McVeigh and another prisoner who is due to die next week, are the first to be executed under federal, as opposed to state, jurisdiction since the USA reinstated the death penalty.
The funeral is widely seen as a long-overdue commemoration of national heroes including Kevin Barry, the 18-year-old medical student who was the first to be executed, and who was made famous by a ballad that celebrates his stoic approach to the gallows.
That was, he said, because Caravaggio produced two types of his own original paintings, one being his "originale" – the first to be executed – and the other his "originario" – a second version made to provide for the model and template for many subsequent copies by other artists.
Irick, who had a history of mental illness, was the first inmate killed by the state since 2009 and the first to be executed with the new drug cocktail. .
Murphy would be the fifth to be executed.
Dragged by horse to Old St Paul's Cathedral, Robert was the second to be executed, praying quietly to himself before he was hanged, drawn and quartered.
Nizami is the fifth to be executed, but the one with the highest profile, as the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami — an Islamist party that ruled the country together with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party from 1991 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2006.
He is also one of the first Westerners to be executed in Singapore since independence, the first one being Johannes Van Damme.
