1.   Kim was spared execution only after strenuous American intervention.

2.   The guilty plea would have spared Koskovich execution but would almost certainly have resulted in a sentence of life in prison.

3.   Chechen officials say the kidnappers may be spared execution only if they released their captives immediately.

4.   Kim was spared execution by the intervention of Washington and allowed to leave the country for medical treatment in the United States two years later.

5.   Makhashev said the kidnappers might be spared execution only if they released their captives immediately.

6.   Republican researchers highlighted the transcript of a trial of a multiple cop killer whom White, in a dissent, said should have been spared execution.

7.   Prisoners deemed fit to work were spared immediate execution and became slave laborers whose death was instead to be slow, through starvation, torture and abominable living conditions.

8.   Throughout his trial last week, Ocalan said that if he is spared execution he would work for peace between his rebels and Turkey.