Sentence examples for prospect of execution from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hanssen seemed at times unfazed by the prospect of execution, lawyers involved in the case said.

Moreover, even for those who are, decades of imprisonment may be as great a deterrent as the remote prospect of execution.

But these are the people least likely to be rational enough to calculate the consequences of their acts, or to be deterred by the prospect of execution.

Those captured will be handed to the Iraq authorities with the prospect of execution if they are found guilty in trials.

But, in the past year, the prospect of execution drew closer for a former Adelaide jockey given a suspended death sentence in China for smuggling ice.

If the prospect of execution were a deterrent to killing, Lawes asked, how did Thomas Pallister, who helped build Sing Sing's first death house, come to be convicted of murder and ordered to die there?

Senator Thom Goolsby, who led the repeal forces, seemed to be almost rubbing his hands together at the prospect of executions resuming: "We're going to see that the laws of this state are carried out in their finality," he said.

In Vietnam, a Sydney man faces the prospect of secret execution by lethal injection of locally manufactured chemicals of "unknown efficacy", according to Amnesty International.

"If this is the path I have to walk in order to do what I have to do," Tookie tells Barbara when she weeps at the prospect of his execution, "so be it".

Sherry Bedwell, who was watching her children at Bogey's Fun Center, not far from the prison, said the prospect of an execution had affected everyone, whether or not they favored the death penalty.

And victims' family members who either did not want the defendant put to death or who discovered that the prospect of an execution did not abate their grief or make any more sense of their loss would share in that sense of relief.