Sentence examples for executing political from inspiring English sources

The prosecution continued with its case against the former dictator for executing political opponents in the 1980s.

The most recent charges against him stem from his responsibility for a secret military mission known as the "caravan of death" in which a helicopter squad travelled through Chile in 1974 executing political prisoners.

Jacqueline Macalesher of Penal Reform International, a lobby group, thinks the Arab spring could be a new spur to abolition, though she worries that executing political enemies may prove attractive in the short run.The other big exception is America, where two-thirds of states still have the death penalty.

This massacre is in fact an unprecedented example of executing political prisoners.

“But that sort of conflation of public and private activity projection of political power abroad indirectly through private state owned enterprises to mask (and not all that well) for the purposes of executing political goals also tends to affect perceptions of the integrity of markets.

Research by human rights charity Reprieve found evidence in Iran whose drug police are part funded by the UN that "drug charges may be used as a pretext for persecuting and executing political dissidents".

The re-interpretation of the Second Amendment was an elaborate and brilliantly executed political operation, inside and outside of government.

The junta has tortured and executed political opponents, exploited forced labor and condoned a burgeoning traffic in heroin and amphetamines.

Mr. Hohlt, an insider's insider who creates and executes political strategies, said he had known Mr. Parsons since 1989.

I think there are differences between Saudi Arabia and Isis - Saudi doesn't execute political dissidents, for example, it doesn't execute people because of their religion.

In addition to the police presence, the government's recent moves to execute political dissidents may have scared off potential protesters.