Sentence examples for risk of execution from inspiring English sources

You might want a mature and dispassionate jurist standing between a wounded community's impulse toward vengeance and a defendant at risk of execution.

But of at least 17 Australians still thought to be at risk of execution overseas, life on death row has become a grim reality for at least one man and the fate of another could be known within days.

An imam, a bit distracted because he was preparing to smuggle a rebel flag into Aleppo, at the risk of execution, put it this way: "The Americans are with the Syrians, but they just want to talk".

Also, the difference between being transgender and gay is not well understood in Iran, even within the medical profession, and there have been reports of gay men being pressured into surgery as a way of "regularising" their legal position and avoiding the risk of execution.

A lot of the research assumes that "potential murderers respond to the objective risk of execution," but only one in six of the people sentenced to death in the last 35 years have been executed and no study properly took that diminished risk into account.

"It reduces the risk of execution.

"It is likely to reduce the risk of executions that cause suffocation and excruciating pain," Professor Semel said.

Access to information is necessary to be able to determine whether we are at risk of an execution like what happened last night".

In that ruling the nation's highest judicial panel noted that intellectual disability placed prisoners at "special risk of wrongful execution".

Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal against the death sentence passed this year on Shiite Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, placing him at risk of imminent execution.

But because the system to provide lawyers for the poor is so weak in Texas, there is reason to be even more concerned about the risk of wrongful executions there than in Illinois.