Sentence examples for execution of innocents from inspiring English sources

It was nothing less than an execution of innocents.

The statement also cited the well-documented flaws in China's shoddy legal system and argued that a switch to lethal injection would do nothing to solve such problems as the arbitrary enforcement of the law or the execution of innocents.

In Antony Beevor's history of the Battle of Stalingrad, the brutality and waste of the Stalinist regime — prisoners left to die in the snow, political commissars ordering the execution of innocents, the dead of the great purges haunting the whole — is sickening.

Miscarriages of justice can result in the inadvertent execution of innocents: minorities and the poor are disproportional victims," the Australian Government said in a statement announcing the trip.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is rethinking the death penalty because she believes that administrative faults may have resulted in the execution of innocent people.

The moral arguments against duelling, foot-binding, slavery and disfigurement and execution of innocent women were known long before they influenced public attitudes.

The death penalty does not deter; it results in the execution of innocent people, and it demeans all those involved in carrying it out.

"I really, really think that the focus of your indignation and outrage should be on people who go out to join groups that throw gays off cliffs, that behead people who don't subscribe to their version of Islam, that glorify in the execution of innocent journalists and aid workers," he said.

Mr. Bush's embrace of DNA testing for death row inmates comes as some states have been rethinking capital punishment amid concerns about the execution of innocent prisoners and polls that indicate support for the death penalty is at a 20-year low, although most Americans still favor it.

Sister Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun from Louisiana who furiously denounced the death penalty in "Dead Man Walking," now argues that capital punishment should be abolished not only because it is wrong but also because it is unreliable, resulting in the execution of innocent people.

When he was in an alcoholic stupor, he sometimes ordered the execution of innocent men.