Executions in a sentence

While he does not have any direct authority over state executions, some experts have warned that Trump's pro-death penalty stance may trigger more executions at a state level.

Attorney General William Barr has ordered executions to be scheduled for five inmates on death row, although court challenges have halted the executions from moving forward.

As the executions continued, Redmond pleaded with Prime Minister H. H. Asquith to stop them, warning that "if more executions take place in Ireland, the position will become impossible for any constitutional party".

By contrast, torturous executions were typically public, and woodcuts of English prisoners being hanged, drawn and quartered show large crowds of spectators, as do paintings of Spanish auto-da-fé executions, in which heretics were burned at the stake.

For example, he refutes the claim made by Latsis that only 22 executions were carried out in the first six months of the Cheka's existence by providing evidence that the true number was 884 executions.

Historian Ian Crofton has maintained that such executions would become Henry's primary tactic for dealing with those who stood in his way; the two executions were certainly not the last.

Schama 2004, p.646 Systematic executions The guillotine became the tool for a string of executions.

After each round of chaotic arrests and executions, the CCP often acknowledges that many of the so-called spies have been falsely accused.

Amnesty International condemned the latest executions as a "fast-tracked unfair group trial" of the two men which it said bore no "resemblance to a meaningful judicial proceeding".

Amnesty International data shows Saudi Arabia trailing only China and Iran in the number of executions in 2022.

As French troops gained ground and the Paris Commune appeared to be nearly defeated, the insurrectionist government carried out more than 100 executions.

A statement issued at the end of UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Morris Tidball-Binz’s visit to the country that extrajudicial killings are “still a widespread phenomenon”.

At a United Nations Human Rights briefing Tuesday, spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani called on the Singapore government to adopt a “formal moratorium” on executions for drug-related offences.

Between July and December 1936, the Viznar ravine just outside the southern city of Granada was used “as a place for executions”, explains Francisco Carrion, an archaeologist from the University of Granada who is in charge of the exhumation project.

Boasting pirates, plague, numerous executions, doomed love and some of the greatest poetry ever written, Katherine Rundell’s life of John Donne revels in the man’s many paradoxes and is a joy to read.

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Corrections officials swiftly concluded that they were fully prepared to restart executions, now using nitrogen gas to kill condemned prisoners.

Gov. Bill Lee paused all executions in May 2022 and requested the review.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise: It is benefiting from strong executions in clearing backlogs and increased customer acceptance.

In a phone interview, — the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions — who is a signatory to the experts’ letter to the Saudi government, said he was not surprised that the issue had received little attention.