Sentence examples for the first convicts from inspiring English sources

Battling adversity, after all, is what Australians excel at and have done since 1788, when the first convicts were disgorged on to that fatal shore to build their own prison.

Timberlake Wertenbaker's 1988 play Our Country's Good tells its story from the point of view of the first convicts who arrived in Botany Bay from Britain in the late 18th century.

Banished (BBC2) | iPlayer Storyville: India's Daughter (BBC4) | iPlayer Surviving Sandy Hook (BBC2) | iPlayer Pompidou (BBC2) | iPlayer Arthur & George (ITV) | ITV Player Banished, a thrillingly pot-boiling tale of the first convicts to land in New South Wales in 1788 and their dastardly redcoat overseers, could almost have been written by anyone.

If the execution is carried out, Mr. Williams would be the first convict put to death involuntarily in Pennsylvania since 1962.

The first convicted were members of a ruling junta who were sentenced to 45- to 50-year prison terms.

Our book that deserved to do better Neil Mackay's The Wolf Trial is a novel based on the true story of Peter Stumpf, the first convicted serial killer in history – who was tried as a werewolf in Germany in 1563.

Despite this, serious illness remained rare and the first convict death was from accidental causes rather than disease.

On December 19, Taylor became the first convict in 40 years to be sent to death row by a Weber County court.

The sixth convict, Vietnamese woman Tran Thi Bich Hanh, was executed in the Boyolali district in central Java.

Lawyers for the second convicted killer, Joshua Komisarjevsky, 31, had waged an aggressive fight to avoid a capital sentence since Oct. 13, when he was convicted of the crimes, which drew national attention in 2007.

When Mr. Laski begins his new weeknight show on WGN-AM on April 12, he will become the third convicted or indicted Illinois politician with a regular presence on local radio.