Sentence examples for near execution from inspiring English sources

Philadelphia is only about 100 miles away; but to traverse those miles, William must swim the Chesapeake Bay; find himself betrayed and recaptured; endure a forced march in a "coffle," a line of chained slaves; then, after a second escape, stow away and suffer near execution before the ship's captain, in an act of contrition, releases him on the docks of Philadelphia.

William Adams -- the real-life inspiration for James Clavell's "Shogun" -- sailed to Japan in 1600 in search of riches, but after some hairy moments, including his near execution, became an honorary samurai and intermediary between the Japanese court and foreign traders.

After surviving a near execution, Bond exacts revenge on Blofeld in a duel, Blofeld armed with a sword and Bond with a wooden staff.

It is a horrifyingly satiric examination of the wrongful murder conviction & near-execution of an innocent man.

At boarding school, he took to wearing all black and smoking black Sobranies, and he helped form a literary comedy troupe that played scenes like the tsar's near-execution of Dostoyevsky for slapstick.

Its focus was on a double homicide of a young couple that led to the conviction and near-execution of Anthony Porter in 1998.

From near-execution to freedom is a great story on its face, but breaking a wrongful conviction record is a tragic feat.

One of the stars of the beloved "Arrested Development," cancelled after a truncated third season by Fox after a long series of near-executions, Arnett's admittedly less renowned second series, "Running Wilde," got the axe by the same network before it could even reach the middle of its first season.

In other executions, the condemned inmate shifts to a special holding cell near the execution chamber during the lead-up to the big day, necessitating a separate security detail.

Pocock was also present at a now notorious incident in March 1962 when the Aletti hotel was stormed by rebel Algerians hunting an Italian journalist and, failing to find him, bundled the Daily Telegraph's reporter John Wallis into the back of a jeep to be driven off to his near certain execution.

Initially he denied his crimes, but then, near the execution date, confessed to them.