Sentence examples for to avoid execution from inspiring English sources

He narrowly manages to avoid execution and has the rebels who were to be executed alongside him freed, an uncharacteristically humane act for a character usually portrayed as a liar, a bully and a scoundrel.

It will be his last chance to avoid execution.

Sneed struck a plea deal and indicted Glossip to avoid execution himself.

1969: To avoid execution, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. and gets 99 years.

Bowman, desperate to avoid execution, clearly wants something from her, but what it is she isn't sure.

It took just 80 words for a federal appeals court to deny Kevin Cooper's most recent plea to avoid execution.

And the article on death-penalty jurors continued to draw correspondents, many of them asserting that the caliber of the lawyer is key to avoiding execution.

However, when cell-cycle control fails or there is a mutation predisposing the cell to genomic instability, the cell may avoid execution and the aberrant division may be completed with various consequences, such as the gain or loss of single chromosomes, haploidization or entering into sequential steps of illegitimate polyploidization and depolyploidization (Fig. 5).

He did avoid execution and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Mr. Ashcroft said he wanted defense lawyers to have an adequate chance to review the documents even though he said Justice Department officials had assured him that the documents held nothing that could help Mr. McVeigh avoid execution, let alone gain a new trial.

That means inmates can essentially avoid execution by choosing lethal injection over the chair.