Sentence examples for executions as a from inspiring English sources

Shakespeare writes about torture and public executions as a spectacle.

It is a regime that still practices executions as a public spectacle.

The pope, in a speech to religious leaders on Sunday, described those mass executions as a "murderous frenzy".

There is even evidence that some senior officers believed in a kind of 'frontline eugenics' and used executions as a way of culling the weak and unfit.

China is wary enough about its death penalty system that it has long designated its number of executions as a state secret.

"They carried out executions as a warning to others, but even that didn't stop the spread of the videos, so now they've decided to chase out [the problem].

European democracies have outlawed executions, as has most of South America (a few countries make exceptions for war crimes).

Outcry over violent crime has also been increasing, and some analysts saw the executions as an attempt by Mr. Karzai to appear responsive.

So we regard public executions as an anachronistic barbarity, to say nothing of flogging, the stocks, and other pre-modern forms of punishment.

Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, described the executions as an "unjust aggression".

Wetherby Conservative councillor John Procter, shadow executive member for leisure and culture, has criticised the stay of execution as a political stunt that has cost council tax payers in Leeds.