Sentence examples for executed the first from inspiring English sources

A week ago, Iran executed the first two people convicted in connection with anti-government protests.

He executed the first satellite transmission of a cable program from Washington, D.C., to a convention of 3,000 cable operators in Anaheim, Calif.

ALMOST 42 years after the end of its war of secession from Pakistan, Bangladesh has executed the first man to be convicted of atrocities committed during the conflict.

In 1999 Plushchenko made history when he executed the first triple axel half loop triple flip combination landed cleanly in competition.

There he executed the first of his "wall arrangements," installations in which he combined his work with that of his fellow students.

A majority of their settlements had failed, and in some cases Portuguese leaders had been cornered and ritually executed (the first bishop of Brazil must have tasted particularly sweet to the Caeté tribesmen who ate him in 1556).

Two of those K.G.B. officers were executed; the third was imprisoned and later released.

Two of those officers were tried and executed; the third was imprisoned and later released.

Two of the Russians were subsequently tried and executed; the third was imprisoned and later released.

Since the resumption of capital punishment in Virginia in 1982, 107 people have been executed, the second highest number in the nation.

Even assuming that all inmates actually committed the crimes for which they are being executed, the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution says "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted".