Sentence examples for possibility of executions from inspiring English sources

The possibility of executions carried out in error weighed heavily in the debate.

The soldiers face the possibility of execution.

The possibility of execution by lethal injection or firing squad looms for all of them.

Defense attorneys have said he would plead guilty if he did not face the possibility of execution.

He avoided the possibility of execution, prosecutors said, because other family members asked the authorities not to seek it.

A 28-year-old man admitted today that he strangled eight women here over two years, entering a guilty plea that will spare him the possibility of execution.

For four decades, he has been consistently diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, which should categorically exclude him from the possibility of execution under established Supreme Court precedent.

The defense had argued that several other suspected terrorists avoided the possibility of execution through deals they made with the government for their cooperation or under the terms of their extradition to the United States.

The attorney general has already rejected seven pleas of guilt in which defendants would have avoided the possibility of execution and instead received a lengthy sentence, usually of life in prison, said Kevin McNally, a lawyer.

Lindh typifies the defendant who pleads to avoid the possibility of execution; the government's reward includes not having to expose security sources (or, perhaps, a weak case) if the case goes to trial.

And if the refugee is discovered to have been on his way to South Korea, through Mongolia or via another route, he faces the real possibility of execution as a traitor.