Sentence examples for executed a woman from inspiring English sources

A US state has executed a woman for orchestrating her husband's murder, while the man who stabbed him to death remains in prison on a life sentence.

TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran has executed a woman convicted of murdering her father's cousin when she was 17, Iranian news media reported Saturday.

Beheaded in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for allegedly smuggling heroin The only non-Gulf Arab state to have executed a woman in the past 32 months is Jordan where a 26-year-old Jordanian woman identified only as "Tamatheel S" was hanged at Sawaka prison on 19 November 1993, for allegedly murdering her husband.

The state had last executed a woman in 1912.

The state of Arizona has not executed a woman since 1930.

In Esfahan they executed a pregnant woman.... [In clerical jurisprudence] one must not execute a woman even if she is a mohareb (enemy of God).

Members of Ranavalona's court were accused of encouraging the rebels and many leading figures were executed, including the queen's uncle Ratsimamanga (brother of her favored adviser, Ramisindrazana) and her minister of war, Rainandriamampandry. Ramisindrazana, the queen's aunt, was exiled to Réunion, as the French were reluctant to execute a woman.

Her life changed completely when she saw an Afghan video of the Taliban executing a woman, clad in a faded blue burqa, in Kabul Stadium where, as a girl, she had happily watched games of soccer and buzkashi -- Afghan polo -- and had once attended a concert given by Duke Ellington.

The hard-line court in Tehran executed a third woman in three months.

Jordan executed an Iraqi woman involved in the suicide bombings that killed 60 people in 2005.

It was a telling sort of painting, nicely executed, of a woman with a reserved 1950s bouffant and a satiny, short-sleeved gown that looked like a debut dress.