Sentences with phrase «condemned to death»

«Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once!

That said — if prisoners, albeit ones condemned to death, do give their consent informed and freely to the use of their organs for transplantation after death, or indeed an impoverished Indian peasant, who is unable to support his wife and large family, consents to the donation for cash of eg a kidney, and this money will guarantee the family's life and future — can such autonomous action be regarded as unethical and should it be outlawed?

Because of their credibility within the community, Susannah is condemned to death.

Its founders — themselves death row inmates — say the site is an effort to show the humanity of those condemned to death.

It was this approach that kept many fleeing the Holocaust from being able to come to this country and condemned them to death in concentration camps.

Many were sent to the gulag and some were condemned to death.

The current iteration of the work contains the statements of 510 inmates condemned to death, and will be updated as new statements become available.

monochrome painting I, 1988/1989 first station — christ condemned to death kasimir malevich SUPREMATISTS COMPOSITION: WHITE ON WHITE, c. 1918 oil on canvas the museum of modern art, new york

In Golden Trails 2: The Lost Legacy, you play the role of Henry whose Grandfather is accused of piracy and condemned to death.

They were condemned to death, however, the emperor said they could have a reprieve if William could shoot an apple off his son's head with a crossbow.

As long as there is a market for pet store puppies, other dogs will be condemned to death by mass breeding only so that a few people can make some money, often with no thought of the welfare of their «product.»

Thank you for bringing their faces - not just their names, not just their numbers - but those faces to life, when they'd already been condemned to death.

In Venetian Curiosities, acclaimed novelist Donna Leon recounts some of Venice's most intriguing tales: an elephant brought in for Carnival wreaks havoc upon the city before seeking refuge in a church, the city employs prostitutes in an attempt to prevent homosexuality, innocent men are mistakenly condemned to death, a gambler bets the family palazzo.

The poet Francois Villon has been condemned to death by Louis XI, and to escape execution, he enters into a questionable relationship with a bishop in the pay of Louis XI.

Captured, tortured and condemned to death by the Germans, La Rochefoucauld managed to escape from certain doom time and time again.

Dan was given two life sentences; Ron was condemned to death but has yet to be executed.

Among the cases Stevenson cites: a 14 - year - old condemned to death for killing his mother's abusive boyfriend and a mentally ill adolescent girl condemned to life in prison for second - degree murder for the death of young boys killed in a fire she started accidentally.

A woman fit for hanging... condemned to death on April 30, 1823, but whose sentence the English, having recently wrested authority from the Dutch settlers, saw fit to commute to a lengthy term on the notorious Robben Island.

Many of these murderers, rapists, and other scoundrels are condemned to death anyway.

Condemned to death by Chancellor Sopot, six super-soldiers unite to save their country, vowing to overthrow Sopot using the unique powers that nano - technology has given them.

Convicted and condemned to death in the gas chamber, Billy is visited on Death Row by girlfriend Ellen (Cindi Wood) to whom he bids a tearful farewell.

How is it that a woman who for so many years got everything she wanted can be condemned to death for so little?At this moment, I look back at my life and realize that memory is a river, one that always runs backward.Memories are full of caprice, where images of things we've experienced are still capable of suffocating us through one small detail or insignificant sound.

Second, some inmates are being condemned to death by inflated IQ scores obtained using older intelligence tests.

«When you all reported lavishly how under the former president, the former defence chief set up a military tribunal to try soldiers who ran away from the battlefield and they were condemned to death, it was only Femi Falana who was consistent in fighting their case.

When Saddam Hussein appeared before the court that condemned him to death, he must have known he had no chance of acquittal.

Arrested in July 1836 and condemned to death, she escaped execution thanks to a providential fire which caused panic among the soldiers and allowed her to get to Tamatave.

Once he was condemned to death and thrown into a miry dungeon.

When the officers had left, they took the eighteen condemned to death and led them to the place of execution.

The sign of Jonah is in One who was rejected as a blasphemer by the religious leaders of his time and condemned to death as a criminal by the political leaders, rising up from the dead and sitting at the right hand of God, and being given a name that is above every other name, so that «at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth» (Phil.

how many people have the church condemned to death for not believing in the tenants of thier belief.

Jesus is condemned to death 2.

The Jesus who was crucified was the same Jesus who overcame the power of Satan and the evil spirits, who was the friend of publicans and sinners, who was condemned to death by the «righteous», who preached the Sermon on the Mount, who disputed with the Pharisees and denounced them, who was always an enigma to his disciples and in the end was rejected by them, who was reviled by Jews and Gentiles.

«The ten condemned to death went through terrible days.

They'd be among the ones condemned to death otherwise.

His seventh thesis on the death of Jesus states: «Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy» (CC 204).

Well with your track record Hitler and all the people you condemned to death I guess I would want everyone to go free too with no punishment.

According to the first version, she could not pass the physical walking tests required and therefore was condemned to death.

Gay, straight, bi... thief, murderer, or do - gooder... whoever... we are all guilty, therefore condemned to death.

To be betrayed and condemned to death.

When the two despondent disciples on the road to Emmaus expressed to the stranger their bewilderment that such a powerful prophet as Jesus should have been condemned to death and be crucified, we are told that the risen Christ «began with Moses and all the prophets, and explained to them the passages which referred to himself in every part of the scriptures».6 The story implies that the Scriptures, when properly interpreted, made it clear that the Messiah was «bound to suffer thus before entering upon his glory» 7 When finally they recognized the identity of this stranger as they shared the evening meal before he vanished from their sight, they said to each other, «Did we not feel our hearts on fire as he talked with us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?»

Prophets, dreamers, and inciters who led the chosen astray were condemned to death under the Law but made divine, in one specific case only, under another dispensation.

While traveling in France, where Protestantism was illegal, in April 1552, they were arrested and later condemned to death.

Jesus at any rate allowed himself to be condemned to death for claiming to be (in Jewish terms) Messiah.5

Who in this mercy hath not faith, Nor aught therein discerneth, Is yet in sin, condemned to death, And fire that ever burneth; His holiness avails him not, Nor aught which he is doing; His inborn sin brings all to naught, And maketh sure his ruin; Himself he can not succor.

There is a woman in Pakistan who has been arrested for blasphemy and condemned to death.

After all the hand - wringing and hand washing, he condemned to death a man he knew to be innocent.

And at the end of the trial, Jesus is condemned to death.

But gone are the days when men (and women) were condemned to death for what I just wrote.

Some of the individuals had spent up to 33 years condemned to death.

Catherine described hiding in the mire of pigs to escape the Red Army, only to be captured and condemned to death by slow starvation.