Sentence examples for executed every year from inspiring English sources

It is impossible to say how many people are executed every year in North Korea – Amnesty estimates a conservative-sounding 105 between 2007 and 2012.

Islamic law sanctions capital punishment for murderers, and dozens of people are executed every year in Muslim countries for committing serious crimes.

HOUSTON — The death penalty went on trial Monday in Texas, a state where more prisoners are executed every year than in any other and where exonerations of people on death row occur with surprising regularity.

Executed: 20 October 2011, aged 38 Flaw: "Volunteer" The case: Johnson was one of the few prisoners who are executed every year as "volunteers" – that is they choose to die and waive all rights to appeal or clemency.

Ms Allen said: "Thousands of people are executed every year after unfair trials; people are tortured in prisons and thrown in jail just for peacefully standing up for human rights.

But he said: "There are many people executed every year in local countries - Thailand, Cambodia - for much smaller amounts of drugs..

We also wrote about how getting hold of drugs for executions is growing harder, because drug companies often refuse to sell them if they think they might be used to kill someone.As the chart indicates, America has been executing fewer inmates every year since 2009.

We executed offensively the best we executed all year".

In any case, not only was Hamon executed that year, but all of his works were ordered destroyed.

It's strange to think how fast things were working: the book had been published the previous year and the killers executed the year before that.

At the current rate (which is slowing) a condemned prisoner has a one-in-72 chance of being executed each year.