Would she be a hero, or an outcast forced to live in an alien culture to avoid execution?

He avoided execution because of a Russian moratorium on capital punishment.

He apparently threw himself down a prison stairwell to avoid execution.

He then returned to Orestes' side, where he helped him to come up with a plan to avoid execution.

When Fornasini confessed to having helped the villagers avoid execution, the officer shot and killed him.

This was common, since the accused could often avoid execution by naming accomplices.

Or that your only hope of avoiding execution is to cooperate with us.

In the most notable of these, his father had to hide in a tower to avoid execution.

He did avoid execution and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

He managed to avoid execution by escaping from prison on the 6 of May, 1550.