Sentence examples for the prospect of execution from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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?

In his argument urging the court to declare that a defendant cannot bar mitigating evidence, one of Mr. LaValle's lawyers, Daniel R. Williams, said many defendants who faced the prospect of execution were "damaged individuals".

He rejects the idea that the prospect of execution has any significant deterrent effect.

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.

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.

"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".

Nimr's imprisonment and the prospect of mass executions brought calls in Britain and elsewhere for clemency, amid claims by Human Rights Watch campaigners that the trials of the suspects were deeply unjust.