Sentence examples for execution of the prisoners from inspiring English sources

The subsequent trial and execution of the prisoners are acted out in a mock fashion.

The scheduled execution of the prisoner, Terrance Williams, 46, had prompted pleas for clemency from thousands of people who argued that he should be spared because he had been sexually abused by the man he killed.

"Force-feeding means premeditated execution of the prisoner," he said.

The executions of the prisoners, who were pulled from a hospital in the Croatian town of Vukovar, were considered among the most notorious events in the war.

Mr. Engel was convicted of ordering the execution of the Italian prisoners, who were chained together and shot one after another.

When I spoke to him in July, Human Rights Watch was about to release several reports on crimes committed by the Iraqi government: the execution of Sunni prisoners, the murder of Sunni men by government-supported Shiite militias, the killing of civilians by barrel-bomb attacks conducted by the Iraqi Air Force.

Although some antigovernment fighters in Aleppo have participated in abuses and battlefield excesses — including the summary execution of prisoners — the perpetrators have often not been identified and the crimes have not been directly linked to Mr. Saleh or his immediate followers, a researcher with Human Rights Watch said.

These include the beheading of opposition leaders and others, the execution of prisoners and the injured (which, after the June 1981 coup against me, reached 300-400 a night and climaxed in 1988 when the regime executed more than 4,000 prisoners who had already been sentenced and were serving prison terms).

His victory in a legal battle in 1989 caused Maryland to bar the execution of retarded prisoners, only the second state, after Georgia, to do so.

He was arrested in December 2012 and held for more than five months after publicly condemning the execution of nine prisoners by the Gambian government.

And he said that while he had raised the mass execution of 47 prisoners with the regime, such acts reflected the "widely held conservative social values" in the kingdom.