Sentence examples for imminent execution from inspiring English sources

Foreign courts have ruled that living for decades under the threat of imminent execution is a form of psychological torment.

But the condemned do not live under threat of imminent execution; the long delays give the lie to that claim.

It filed its complaint in January 2003 to halt the imminent execution of three of its citizens.

She has now been imprisoned for more than 10 years and is living under threat of imminent execution.

It is believed that the sentences have now been upheld, and that they now face imminent execution.

The suicide occurred despite close vigilance on death row, where guards check every 15 minutes on inmates facing imminent execution.

Amnesty said that in addition to the nine who may already have been executed, "more are under threat of imminent executions today and in the coming days".

This month Oklahoma's Supreme Court briefly stayed two imminent executions, concerned about secrecy.

But Ruddock says no one in the Howard government had power to give "any direction politically" to the AFP on its fateful decision, which has faced renewed criticism in light of the imminent executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

As a result, Tuesday's ruling by the Texas court was seen as a sign that judges in the nation's leading death penalty state were taking guidance from the Supreme Court and putting off imminent executions.

In Texas, lawyers for two murderers on death row filed a lawsuit in a Houston federal court on Tuesday attempting to stop the inmates' imminent executions on the basis that the state department of criminal justice is refusing to reveal details about the compounded pentobarbital to be used in the two lethal injections.