Sentence examples for execution at a from inspiring English sources

The country was a grim and medieval place — I witnessed a public execution at a Kabul stadium.

Meanwhile, other local newspaper reports noted that an alternative theory suggested they were not vampires, but victims of an execution at a known nearby gallows.

Mr. Cruz awaits execution at a time when there is growing opposition across the country to the execution of the mentally retarded.

Somehow, we seem to have lost the capacity for long-range planning and execution — at a time when, arguably, foresight and patience are more essential than ever before.

Mr. Wo is awaiting execution at a prison hospital in Beijing and could be put to death as early as Thursday.

Naoto Kan, the man at present on the inside of the revolving door, only stayed there by promising at the beginning of June to step down soon, in return for a stay of execution at a parliamentary no-confidence vote.

But he is still setting the league standard for execution at an age when other men are getting arthritis.

Clare Algar, executive director of Reprieve said: "If Linda is not granted a new hearing, she faces the death penalty based on lies extracted by prosecutors desperate to secure an execution at any cost.

The seemingly opposite trends -- a 25-year record high of executions, and an ever-shrinking number of countries that perform them -- hinge on just a few countries that carry out executions at a disproportionately high rate, according to Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

Indeed, the huge, walking-stick-wielding Sam Houston has become a popular attraction in Huntsville, which had previously been associated mainly with executions at a nearby state prison.

Only Missouri bucked the trend – it lethally injected 10 prisoners compared with just two the previous year, as it forged ahead with an aggressive new drive to carry out executions at a rate of almost one a month.