Sentence examples for wrongful execution from inspiring English sources

This week in the magazine, David Grann writes about a possible case of wrongful execution.

In that ruling the nation's highest judicial panel noted that intellectual disability placed prisoners at "special risk of wrongful execution".

Massachusetts seems to be alone in allowing lawyers to reveal secrets "to prevent the wrongful execution or incarceration of another".

Any wrongful execution is constitutionally repugnant and erosive of the core values of justice in the United States.

"Throne of Death" may be the first film to present a wrongful execution as a "happy" ending.

It was a case of wrongful execution, Gary C. Anderson, a history professor at the University of Oklahoma and Little Crow biographer, said last week in an interview.

Wrongful executions, trust me, have already occurred.

THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, by Helen Prejean.

And while it would put an end to wrongful executions, it might well lead to more overall injustice.

Charles Baird, a judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals until 1998, was in Washington this week to announce the formation of a national committee to prevent wrongful executions.

But because the system to provide lawyers for the poor is so weak in Texas, there is reason to be even more concerned about the risk of wrongful executions there than in Illinois.