Sentence examples for giving condemned from inspiring English sources

One of America's top judges has launched a dramatic attack on the use of medical drugs in executions, stating that the attempt to disguise the brutality of the death penalty by giving condemned prisoners the appearance of serenity in their final moments is "doomed to failure" and that the country should return to the firing squad.

The carefully balanced statement he gave condemned those biases but acknowledged the dangers faced by the police.

In a 4-to-3 vote, the court refused to grant a hearing for John W. Byrd Jr., and would not delay the execution, set for Sept. 12. Ohio gives condemned inmates a choice between the electric chair and lethal injection.

When the Florida Supreme Court refused in recent cases to overturn the stays given condemned convicts who had no legal representation, it was regarded as a clear signal that the court did not intend to allow executions to proceed in these type of cases.

But the other alternative, that is, not giving him money, would have condemned him to further misery.

The fact that so many people of diverse political persuasions have condemned his killing gives me hope.

A federal judge in Topeka has blocked what would be the military's first execution since 1961, giving the condemned prisoner more time to appeal his conviction and sentence.

But the judge set specific conditions, including giving the condemned man the option of a single drug to be used in a lethal injection, an issue that has bogged down executions in the state before.

A death row prisoner claims in a lawsuit that giving a condemned inmate a sedative on the day of execution interferes with the drug cocktail used in lethal injections.

As a student at the University of Michigan Medical School, from which he graduated in 1952, and later as a resident at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Dr. Kevorkian proposed giving murderers condemned to die the option of being executed with anesthesia in order to subject their bodies to medical experimentation and allow the harvesting of their healthy organs.

Sentenced to death for giving her condemned brother's corpse an honourable burial, Antigone is sealed in a cave but hangs herself to ensure an honourable death.