Sentence examples for executed last week from inspiring English sources

The bizarre saga of Shahram Amiri, a broad-shouldered young nuclear scientist who was executed last week in Iran, is the stuff of literary thrillers and movie blockbusters.

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.

IT'S easy to see why the case of Troy Davis, the Georgia man executed last week for the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer, became a cause célèbre for death penalty opponents.

The Elias Book of Baseball Records does not list this particular record, so the Houston Astros do not know what to make historically of a play they executed last week against Philadelphia.

Eight-six percent of respondents in a survey conducted by Kompas, Indonesia's leading daily, agreed to the death penalty for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the two Australian nationals who were among the eight men executed last week.

A Texas man convicted of three drug-related murders was put to death by lethal injection today at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., the same place Timothy J. McVeigh was executed last week.

Three people have been executed since 2004, and there were no executions for eight years before that.

Brazilian drug smuggler Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira was executed last month, reportedly without receiving his last rites.

States executed 4,400 people from 1930 to 1999, according to the Justice Department, compared with 33 federal executions since 1930.

No American soldier has been executed since 1961.

Your husband will be executed tomorrow morning at six.