Sentence examples for under threat of execution from inspiring English sources

He has spent the past 43 years in prison in Japan, under threat of execution.

In 1795, after Robespierre's fall, he was jailed with other radicals under threat of execution, and kept making art.

Tuesday's ruling by the court of cassation means Morsi is no longer under threat of execution, although he is serving three long jail sentences.

Mr. Ferere was forced into exile with his wife in 1963, under threat of execution by the Duvaliers, who brutally ruled the country from the 1950s to the '80s.

He added he was personally supervising the efforts to rescue the British hostage seized by Isis and now under threat of execution, saying his heart went out to their family, "We do everything we can in every circumstance and ask what more can we do," he said.

The jester stated that he was to keep quiet about this under threat of execution.

But the condemned do not live under threat of imminent execution; the long delays give the lie to that claim.

She has now been imprisoned for more than 10 years and is living under threat of imminent execution.

It appears that the organization of Drancy did involve some Jews -- under threat of immediate execution or deportation -- who took part in the administration of the camp, including the drawing up of lists.

The illiterate defendant signed an abjuration document she did not understand under threat of immediate execution.

Amnesty said that in addition to the nine who may already have been executed, "more are under threat of imminent executions today and in the coming days".