Sentence examples for executed for a crime from inspiring English sources

ON Wednesday night, Troy Davis was executed for a crime he may or may not have committed.

In July 2007, a 16-year old was executed for a crime he allegedly committed when he was 13.

The placards announced: "It is everybody's worst nightmare to be executed for a crime they did not commit.

Wade was orphaned when both of his parents were executed for a crime that they didn't commit; after they died, he was nicknamed Cry-Baby.

It is James M. Cain, the author of a story about a man guilty of murder who is executed for a crime he didn't commit.

David Grann, in a report for The New Yorker, made a persuasive case that Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for a crime he did not commit.

It's been nine years since anyone was executed for a federal crime.

McVeigh was convicted on 11 counts of murder, conspiracy, and using a weapon of mass destruction and was executed in 2001 the first person executed for a federal crime in the United States since 1963.

Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens noted that mentally retarded criminals do not have the capacity to be deterred by the knowledge that they might be executed for a capital crime.

In China you can be executed for a number of drug crimes; ditto Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Iran.

Last year ended with the disturbing news that Kim, possibly under pressure from other members of the North Korean elite, had had his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, arrested and executed for a long list of alleged crimes, including treason.