Sentence examples for Legal execution from inspiring English sources
Between1891 and 1963, the year of the last legal execution in New York State, more people -- 614 -- were executed at Sing Sing than at any other prison.
Since the United States is almost the last modern, first-world country to put captive human beings to death in the ghastly ritual of a legal execution, it is fair to argue that this killing really is cruel and unusual.
According to the National Safety Council, you are more likely to die from a bicycle accident, lightning strike, mauling by alligator or bear, dog bite, fireworks, tornado, wasp or bee sting, legal execution, fall from a bed, or an asteroid, than by a shark attack.
Unbeknown to Goring, in 1640 the document "failed to pass the Great Seal before King Charles I fled London, which it needed to do for legal execution".
That's just a number though; to put that number into perspective, your chances of dying by legal execution are pretty similar, 1 in 127,717.
No one ever expected the pace of legal executions in America to slow down.
Legal executions in Iraq, under Mr. Hussein, were usually carried out by hanging or firing squad in cases involving military officers or some high-ranking officials.
John Stuart Mill mentions the legal executions of Socrates and of Christ in the same breath in order to call attention to the terrible consequences of allowing common opinion to persecute unorthodox thinkers.
An epidemic of mob killings broke out in South Carolina in the 1890's, and in the upcountry counties of Abbeville, Edgefield, Laurens and Newberry, lynchings outnumbered legal executions during that decade.
Cases involving legal executions were excluded (E978).
