The phrase "allowed the execution of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where permission or authorization is granted for a specific action or process to take place, often in legal, technical, or procedural discussions.
Example: "The committee allowed the execution of the new policy after thorough review and discussion."
Alternatives: "permitted the implementation of" or "authorized the carrying out of".
And to name a Democrat, William Jefferson Clinton, who allowed the execution of a brain-damaged and helpless Rickey Rector in the early days of his first presidential campaign to insure that he, the liberal, didn't get outniggered either.
The court's decision contrasted with its actions last month, when it allowed the execution of a Muslim prisoner in Alabama who was denied his request to have an imam with him at the time of his death.
On his certainty that he never approved an unjust death sentence, my colleague David Grann has documented with near certainty that Perry allowed the execution of at least one innocent man, Cameron Todd Willingham, to proceed.
Mr. Murphy's case was similar to one in February in which the court, by a 5-to-4 vote, allowed the execution of a Muslim inmate in Alabama who had asked that his imam be present.
PAGE A18 COURT'S TILT IS UNCHANGED Justice Sonia Sotomayor cast her first vote in a Supreme Court death penalty case, dissenting from a decision that allowed the execution of a death row inmate to proceed, and giving an indication that the ideological fault line at the court has not changed.
HOUSTON — Questions about whether Gov. Rick Perry allowed the execution of a man some arson experts say may have been innocent, and then hindered an investigation into the evidence, continue to reverberate across Texas, where issues surrounding capital punishment have rarely stirred such controversy.
Texas, which has executed more people than any other state, still allows the execution of retarded inmates who are on Death Row, but a move is under way in the state legislature to prohibit the practice.
Among the three jurisdictions, only Virginia allows the execution of juveniles.
Does allowing the execution of such a conspiracy not reek of a conspiracy in itself?
Virginia law also allows the execution of people for crimes they commit as minors.
Of the 38 states that use the death penalty, 20 allow the execution of the mentally retarded.
