Sentence examples for execution themselves from inspiring English sources

The murdered man's kin might demand the death of the malefactor (they might even carry out the execution themselves), but they may also settle for diyah (wergild; literally, "man payment") at a rate determined by social convention.

Some have come so close to execution themselves that they have heard judges or prison officials read aloud their death warrants, naming the exact date and time when they would face lethal injection or the electric chair.

The executions themselves may be witnessed by select members of the public and the press, but many of the details, including the types of drugs used to dispatch the condemned prisoners, are now being kept secret.

The convention did adopt a "cruel and unusual punishments" clause, but there is no reason to believe that it afforded New Yorkers any more rights than the Eighth Amendment to the federal Constitution, which, at the time, did not apply to the states, and which banned only torturous methods of execution, not executions themselves.

The governing body met twice a day and the executions themselves were carried out across the gardens.

They demand the highest level of execution from themselves and others.

And in Rome he notes that the brotherhood of "gentlemen and prominent people" that accompany public executions hide themselves behind white linen masks.

High-speed exchange operators Bats Global Markets and Direct Edge Holdings have recently launched services designed to help high-speed traders avoid "undesirable executions against themselves," as Bats put it to Bloomberg.

Many of the signatories to Charles I's execution were now themselves beheaded; others were pardoned.

He somehow manages to write a story that impresses the others, who await their execution arguing among themselves over their work and achievements.

Jesus, whose execution the women themselves witnessed, is risen from the dead!