Sentence examples for minutes of execution from inspiring English sources

In February he came within 30 minutes of execution before the procedure was stayed.

On 23 September 2008, Davis came within 90 minutes of execution.

Five minutes of execution had negated the preceding 35 minutes of ragged hockey.

Or the final minutes of Execution, when a killer somehow flips back to 1880 and finds his neck in a noose?

In 2008, Davis came within 90 minutes of execution – he was strapped down on the gurney when the US supreme court granted his stay.

While the details of Troy Davis's underlying prosecution became common knowledge to his legions of supporters, few knew that he had already come within minutes of execution before last month's 11th-hour ordeal.

After a retrial in 1987 and a last-minute stay of execution, Robison, then 42, was executed in 2000.

NASHVILLE, June 28 — A man convicted of raping and killing a marine in 1985 was put to death by lethal injection early Wednesday, while a second inmate received a last-minute stay of execution.

We had come within 40 minutes of his execution four times – once within 58 seconds – before we got a stay.

Its few minutes of genuine execution footage were buried inside an hour of statistics, history and argument against the death penalty.

And, most important, the messages get out quickly, with the Taliban often claiming responsibility for an attack within minutes of its execution, and with just enough credible detail to be believable.