Sentence examples for conducted executions from inspiring English sources

As Jeffrey Toobin reported recently, the U.S. maintains the death penalty under federal and military law and under the laws of thirty-one states — even though only five states conducted executions in 2016 and executed only twenty people in total, the lowest number in twenty-five years.

(Though the Taliban do frequently hold trials, they generally have predetermined outcomes, and the militants are widely documented as having conducted executions with no trial at all. Still, they are often reluctant to admit or discuss killing women).

When Syrian forces recaptured the city with the help of the Russian air force in March of last year, a Russian orchestra from St . Petersburgperformed in the ruins of the theater where ISIS once conducted executions.

The pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine have filmed themselves conducting executions, too.

Like other states, Missouri has previously used a cocktail of three-drugs to conduct executions.

The governors of Illinois and Maryland have declared moratoriums on conducting executions until flaws in those states' criminal justice systems are eliminated.

"The scramble is making it very difficult for departments of corrections to conduct executions and as a result they are resorting to desperate measures.

"The fast pace at which the Abe administration is conducting executions goes directly against the international community's repeated calls to abolish capital punishment," the group's Japan branch said in a statement.