Sentence examples for executions by an from inspiring English sources

For months, the PMLN government had been discouraged from carrying out executions, by an EU threat to take away favourable trading status, which is said to be worth some $1.3bn dollars a year.

Last month, governor John Kasich postponed all Ohio executions by a year so that the issue could be addressed.

More likely, partisan pressure will keep the past alive.Officials say executions by a firing squad will be carried out by January.

The luckless hostages are shown fleetingly, as in a moment when their captors line them up for mock executions by a firing squad.

Thus, a German law of 1916 provided for avoidance of bankruptcy and executions by a procedure placing the debtor, upon his petition, under judicially supervised management.

Espinosa said other hostages were tortured and submitted to repeated mock executions by a trio of guards that prisoners nicknamed "The Beatles".

A prison inmate convicted of killing a man in a Christmas Eve burglary was put to death by injection today as Texas neared a record for executions by a state in a year.

Meanwhile, Mali's army has been accused of carrying out a series of summary executions by a Paris-based rights group.

That's one of the crimes that can get you the death penalty in the Lone Star State, which leads the nation in executions by a significant margin.

Still, following the killings of black Americans Alton Sterling and Philando Castile -- as you all probably know, two seemingly unjustified executions by police officers -- and then the targeted executions by a sniper of five police officers keeping the peace at a Dallas Black Lives Matter protest, my personal musings just seemed so damned trivial.

Knox's book depicts exactly this method of execution in a famous drawing, "An Execution by an Eliphant" (see above).