Example sentences for: breard

How can you use “breard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Virginia executed Paraguayan citizen Angel Francisco Breard for the murder (during an attempted rape) of an American woman.

  • The International Court of Justice had asked Virginia to postpone the execution, saying police had violated the Vienna Convention by failing to inform Breard of his right to be helped by Paraguayan consular officials.

  • Supreme Court rejected these entreaties, saying, variously, that 1) Breard had failed to protest in state courts; 2) access to a consular official would probably not have changed his insistence on pleading innocence (against his lawyers' advice); 3) the murder was especially vicious; 4) the case (complete with DNA tests and the defendant's confession) was open-and-shut; and 5) an apology to Paraguay would suffice.


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