Sentence examples for execution spree from inspiring English sources

"The speed and scale of this execution spree is indicative of the fundamental flaws and lack of due process in the Pakistani criminal justice system, which puts thousands of potentially innocent lives at risk.

The police corruption scandal in Los Angeles, the erroneous death penalty verdicts in Illinois, the F.B.I. scandal in Boston and the execution spree in Texas are all of a piece with this national contradiction.

Maya Foa, from the anti-death penalty campaigning group Reprieve, said: "The apparent hanging of every man in one Iranian village demonstrates the astonishing scale of Iran's execution spree.

The sentence is now back in force after the 12 March announcement lifting death row moratoriums for all crimes, a move condemned by Human Rights Watch as an "ill-conceived decision" opening the way for "an execution spree".

The execution spree appears to be driven by Mr Widodo.

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Driven by unprecedented execution sprees in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran, the use of the death penalty has reached an all-time high, according to figures published by Amnesty International.

Over the last year, countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia embarked on unprecedented execution sprees which together sent hundreds of non-violent drug offenders to their deaths.

Mr. Skillicorn, 43, is facing execution for a crime spree and is on death row at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, Mo.

The top security official for São Paulo State resigned as authorities grappled with a spree of execution-style killings of police officers and a broader surge in homicides.

Two of the eight Arkansas death row inmates scheduled to be executed during Arkansas' death penalty spree in April — Bruce Ward and Don Davis — received stays of execution pending the outcome of the McWilliams case.