The phrase "execution of sentences" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the implementation of a legal punishment, such as a prison sentence. For example, "The court ordered the execution of sentences against the defendants."
In 1922 the leaders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party were subjected to a sham trial, which ended in their being condemned to death on spurious charges of counterrevolution; only international protests and fear of retaliation from Socialist Revolutionary terrorists caused the execution of the sentences to be deferred.
Judicial organs are directed not to hold up the execution of death sentences pertaining to crimes of this category in order to consider the possibility of pardon, because the presidium of the central executive committee of the USSR does not consider as possible the receiving of petitions of this sort.
To deserve the death sentence he'd passed on himself, the execution of the sentence had to be deeply injurious to someone.
No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law".
Moniz also sentenced Carter to five years of probation and then stayed the execution of her sentence so that she remains free until her defense team has exhausted her appeals in the state courts.
Stroud was convicted of first-degree murder, and sentenced to death by hanging on May 2. He was ordered to await execution of his sentence in solitary confinement, but this was thrown out in December by the U.S. Supreme Court.
He died in prison, presumably by violence, before the formal execution of the sentence.
As was the case in his other trials, the execution of the sentence was delayed, pending the conclusion of the appeals process.
"Procedures for the Execution of Offenders Sentenced to Death" is as bloodless a piece of writing as you are likely ever to encounter.
The summons was issued by the court, the trial was held exclusively before the magistrate, and the court became responsible for the execution of the sentence.
