Sentence examples for toward execution from inspiring English sources

The connection between them makes Capote's ambiguous inability to help Smith and his accomplice, Dick Hickok, as they moved toward execution a matter of weakness rather than callousness.

Brigid's, after a woman of the fifth century who was said to have been the first abbess of Ireland, a figure whose powers included running the church, healing the dying, and pardoning people as they trudged toward execution.

Indeed, a hallmark of post-9/11 terrorism stings is the central involvement of paid informants and undercovers, who are often there not just to act as the eyes and ears of the government but to actively provide ideas, plans, plots, religious justification, and the means toward execution.

Indeed, a hallmark of post-9/11 terrorism stings is the often central involvement of paid informants and undercovers, who are often there not just to act as the eyes and ears of the government but to actively provide ideas, plans, plots, religious justification, and the means toward execution.

With a period of about 80 h – from initiation, to cGMP accumulation, to TUNEL-positive reaction, to clearance – the time an individual cell needs to die is remarkably long and points toward execution of non-necrotic, non-apoptotic, and relatively slow cell death mechanisms.

Nor can Catholics opposing the death penalty deduct the share of their tax bill going toward executions in states with capital punishment.

Justice Rehnquist rejected alternatives that might have addressed some concerns, like separate juries for the guilt and penalty phases of a trial or a single jury with extra jurors who could be weeded out based on their attitudes toward executions if a penalty phase was needed.

It is a superb account, bursting at once with piety toward the spirit of this music and sheer irreverence toward its execution.

With the clock ticking toward the execution date, the jurors' statements have to weigh heavily on the consciences of Mr. Bush and the 18 members of the pardons board.

In addition to the surveillance activity, detailed in reports uncovered late last week from computer disks in Pakistan, a senior intelligence official said that "very current and recent activity on the part of Al Qaeda" has left little doubt that "Al Qaeda is moving toward the execution stage of attacks here in the homeland".

In August 1990, Mr. Wang said, he watched as a court bailiff and a prison guard "half carried, half pulled," a condemned man shackled in handcuffs and leg irons from the bed of a truck toward his execution site on a hillock surrounded by barbed wire outside of Tianjin.