Sentence examples for hours of execution from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

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.

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.

By then, 13 condemned prisoners, including one man who came within 50 hours of execution, had been freed from death row because of exonerations and appeals -- more than the number the state had actually executed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977.

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

These record the place and date, and sometimes hour, of execution, as well as information about colors and textures to be added later.

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.