Guillotine, a machine for beheading persons condemned to death.

From 1735 until 1924 persons condemned to death were hanged by the sheriff of the county or judicial circuit where the crime occurred.

He slept, however, that night; he slept with a heavy, brutish sleep like the sleep of certain persons condemned to death.

The last person condemned to death was Anthony Patignott, on 1 October 1963, for the killing of Manwel Baldacchino.

The word sacrifice means the loss of animals, or any persons condemned to death, and were considered both a grievous loss and a gift to the society as a whole.

She mentioned a specific provision under French law called "marriage in extremis" - a person condemned to death may marry civilly before execution - applied to Raymond Aubrac.

The duties of those belonging to the order are, to attend lying-in hospitals, to superintend the education of girls, and protect decent women out of employment, to visit prisoners and the sick, and to attend persons condemned to death.

For example, in Central Asia, a Macedonian named Lysimachus, who spoke before Alexander for a person condemned to death, was himself thrown to a lion, but overcame him with his bare hands and became one of Alexander's favorites.

I absolutely deplore the fact that, after not having had, for the first time in modern history, a single person condemned to death in Europe in 2009, the Belarusian authorities have condemned two people to death and are likely to execute them during this year.

It is not, to be sure, the first time; we hope that, if not the last, then at least it will be one of the last times in which, in extremis , the actual legal situation of a person condemned to death is prevented from being verified.

The final part states: 'deplores, in particular, the preparation by the EU and the United Kingdom of bilateral agreements with the United States, agreements which authorise the Member States to extradite persons condemned to death to the United States..

On the other hand, however, we must make it quite clear that terrorism and violence can only be overcome through justice and the rule of law, and that the thousands of detainees and persons condemned to death in the Philippines have just as much of a right to life as anyone else.

Because of her pregnancy and a specific provision of French law called "marriage in extremis," under which a person condemned to death can marry civilly, Lucie managed to convince Barbie that she was unmarried, and being pregnant could not be a mother without being married (known as a "fille-mère").

The miraculous restoration of a rooster to life is a common motif in European ballads; it frequently appears in a tale in which an innocent person condemned to death is miraculously saved from death, and in which someone expresses disbelief in that miracle as it was unlikely as the rooster's resurrection.