Sentence examples for hour of execution from inspiring English sources

Damon returned at the hour of execution, and Dionysius, stirred by the strength of their friendship, set both men free.

Then, in the first minutes of the 8 t h hour of execution, the system adapts until stabilised for the amount of requests.

He came within one hour of execution in March 2010 before the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a stay.

That put a halt to further testing for a decade until the U.S. Supreme Court, after Skinner came within an hour of execution, took the case and decided in his favor.

Mr. Weeks came within two hours of execution on Sept. 1, when the justices granted a last-minute stay of execution and accepted his appeal for argument.

Twice in the last month, Mr. Coe had come within hours of execution, but he received stays by federal courts reviewing his mental competency.

Two of Alabama's 30 death row prisoners without lawyers recently came within hours of execution because they missed deadlines for appeals.

Nine months after he came within hours of execution, Napoleon Beazley, 26, whose case has prompted debate over the execution of those who commit murder before the age of 18, is scheduled to die by lethal injection tomorrow night in Texas.

The heated debate over the bill had focused on more than a dozen death row prisoners who were found to have been wrongfully convicted — including one man who came within 50 hours of execution.

Mr. Porter came within 48 hours of execution, only to win a stay from a state court because of a psychologist's test showing he had an I.Q. of only 50, raising doubts whether he was mentally competent.

Senator Kwame Raoul, a Democrat who led efforts to end death sentences, reminded his colleagues of the state's record of at least 13 condemned prisoners, including one who came within 50 hours of execution, who were found to have been wrongfully convicted.