Sentence examples for executed for shooting from inspiring English sources

Wood was executed for shooting to death Debra Dietz, his former girlfriend, and her father, Eugene Dietz, in Tucson in 1989.

Horsley doesn't deny being closely associated with some of those who have murdered, including Paul Hill who was executed for shooting dead a Florida doctor and his bodyguard.

When the news came, on August 23 , 1927 that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a shoemaker and a fish peddler, had been executed for shooting two men in a holdup, "life felt very grubby and mean," Katherine Anne Porter wrote, "as if we were all of us soiled and disgraced".

For the second time in three decades, a Texas court is preparing to decide whether Delma Banks Jr. should be executed for the 1980 shooting death of 16-year-old Richard Whitehead.

Lena Baker The only woman to die in the US state of Georgia's electric chair, Lena Baker was a black maid executed in 1945 for shooting her white male employer.

After having seen two or three towns burned and poor people hanged by the dozen, and after two of their own number had been executed for refusing to shoot at old people and children, they had decided that they could no longer remain with the S.S. "Not only that," Gragnola explained, "but if the Germans lose the war, and by now they've lost, what will the Americans and the English do?

It includes civilians, army defectors and those executed for refusing to shoot civilians, but not soldiers or security personnel killed by opposition forces, she said.

Odell Waller (1917 July 2 , 19422) was an African American sharecropper from Gretna, Virginia executed for the fatal shooting of his white landlord, Oscar Wheldon Davis, on July 15 , 1940

The immigrant, Heliberto Chi, 29, was executed in Huntsville, Tex., for shooting to death his former boss during a robbery at a men's store in Arlington in 2001.

The two Australian officers – lieutenants "Breaker" Morant and Handcock – executed by the British for shooting unarmed Boer prisoners during the South African war of 1899-1902 always claimed they were following verbal orders approved by their commander-in-chief, Sir Herbert Kitchener.

He said: "He was executed by shooting".