Sentence examples for the sentence of execution from inspiring English sources

Yet she is reluctant, for reasons political and personal, to pronounce the sentence of execution.

The sentence of execution imposed by Judge Jon C. Blue of State Superior Court here was mandated by the jury's death-penalty verdict on Nov. 8.

Finally, if Mr. Mohammed is convicted, defense lawyers will most likely plead for jurors in New York, historically more cautious about capital punishment than much of the rest of country, to spare the sentence of execution and send him to prison for the rest of his life instead.

Yurovsky came in, ordered them to stand, and read the sentence of execution.

His case was taken all the way to the Saudi Supreme Court before the final sentence of execution was upheld.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger met with prosecutors and defense lawyers but issued no decision on commuting the sentence of Stanley Williams, whose scheduled execution on Tuesday has drawn international attention.

When the chief appeals lawyer for the defense, Susan H. Salomon, said she thought Mr. Harris should then be sentenced to life without parole, Judge George Bundy Smith asked if the court had the authority simply to wipe away a sentence of execution.

The statistics do show that in our country a sentence of execution is more frequently given to minorities and the poor in certain geographic regions.

The Roman Boethius, a Neoplatonist philosopher, wrote on arithmetic and music, but his most popular and influential work was De consolatione philosophiae (1882 91; The Consolation of Philosophy), written in about 524, when Boethius was imprisoned under sentence of execution.

The Capital Defenders Office participated in the defense in these cases as long as there was a possibility of a sentence of execution.

Pope John Paul II made his opposition to capital punishment concrete when he visited St . Louisin January 1999 and successfully begged Gov. Mel Carnahan of Missouri to commute the sentence of a man on the brink of execution.