Sentence examples for executed by the federal from inspiring English sources
If they succeed, she will be the first woman executed by the federal government since 1953.
But it is seldom used; only three people have been executed by the federal government in the last half-century.
If Tsarnaev is unsuccessful in appealing against his sentence, he will be only the fourth person executed by the federal government in the past 50 years.
He will be only the second person executed by the federal government in nearly 40 years; the first was Timothy J. McVeigh, who was executed last week.
But they will soon share this: membership in a relatively small group of convicted killers, spies and kidnappers who have been executed by the federal government rather than by a state.
Unless Mr. Clinton intervenes, Mr. Garza, a Texas man who has admitted to three drug-related homicides, would become the first person executed by the federal government since the Kennedy administration.
The indictment centers on the 1996 killing of Joseph Sodano, a former captain in the Bruno family who federal prosecutors say was executed by the family.
