These two reasons have made me respectfully write to you in the wake of the dreadful execution of Ms. Lewis.
Among several challenging perspectives in his late work was his research into the culture of capital punishment in Bach's Leipzig and speculations as to the extent to which Bach and his pupils had to witness dreadful public executions: this was undoubtedly informed by Williams's own experiences of living in North Carolina.
It is all here on stage – the whole Isis apparatus: the thought and morality police, the state of constant combat to secure the fronts, the denial of all love (except for God and the leader), the dissident's hopeless dreams of escape, the broadcast speeches and rallies, the dreadful public executions laid on as children's entertainment, the Inner-party and constant surveillance.
Policies were poor, execution dreadful and leadership misdirected, but each initiative seemed to create a centripetal force, as everyone looked toward Beijing to see how to march forward (or avoid being trampled).
Before daylight on Tuesday morning, a considerable concourse of people were assembled to witness the dreadful scene of the execution of three of our fellow creatures, viz: Ann Norris, for a robbery in a dwelling-house; Samuel Hayward, for a burglary at Somerstown; and Joseph South, for uttering a forged £10 note.
His execution was dreadful, and the ball squibbed to the left.
Writing in 1914, Eleanor Maddock noted that in Kashmir, since the arrival of Europeans, "many of the old customs are disappearing – and one of these is the dreadful custom of the execution of criminals by an elephant trained for the purpose and which was known by the hereditary name of 'Gunga Rao'".
A United Nations report in 2013 called Kim Jong Un's public executions "one of the dreadful tools" used to rule by fear.
And in Bangladesh, where a war-crimes trial is under way, the government is eager to see the execution of political opponents who are accused of dreadful atrocities in the 1971 independence war.
That is, until the second execution since the restoration of the death penalty turned into a dreadful fiasco.Eduardo Agbayani, sentenced to death for raping his daughter, was due to die by lethal injection at three in the afternoon on June 25th.
