Because of the physical ambiguity he was spared execution and sentenced to a penal battalion instead.

The pirates were given their last chance to show why they should be spared execution, with most simply claiming ignorance and pleading for mercy.

He was spared execution due to his family's close ties to the Spanish crown.

For this he was spared execution and was given 15 years of hard labor.

Upon eradication of the villages that gave support to rebel garrisons, women, children, and the elderly were spared execution.

They were both sentenced to death, but later spared execution.

Mainly through Harry Day's efforts all were spared execution.

He was reportedly spared execution because he had already shown himself to be exceptionally capable as an assistant in the Treasury.

She survived her husband, being spared execution, and died of old age in 1707.

Pleading to be spared execution he claimed to possess extraordinary information about the assassin "Carlos."