Sentence examples for executions could not from inspiring English sources

Peter Robinson, an experienced American defense lawyer on the Karadzic team, said that Mr. Karadzic would argue that the mass executions could not be his responsibility because there was no such policy.

General Ri's reported execution could not be independently confirmed.

Although the films have a similar theme, their execution could not be more different.

In the recent California case, however, doctors willing to participate in the execution could not be located in time.

And while the apparent execution could not be independently verified, experts suggested that the increased use of children in the atrocities it films represented "a departure from past norms", even by Isis standards.

On Tuesday, responding to concerns by Bucklew's attorneys that a medical condition made it likely that he would endure a lengthy and painful death, a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court decided that the convict's execution could not go ahead as planned and imposed a 60-day stay.

Christ's ignominious execution couldn't have been far from the mind of Sir Thomas More as he faced the executioner's axe on nearby Tower Hill at the behest of Henry VIII.

But Germany said to the court that the shootings were summary executions and could not be justified.

In execution, things could not have been further from what people expected.

Judge Aleta Trauger of United States District Court issued a brief stay of execution, saying she could not review Mr. Coe's petition to block the execution in the hours remaining until he was to die.

Having witnessed an execution by lethal injection in Virginia, she knows firsthand the sterile rituals: the tension-filled buildup, the surreal gentility ("the execution team couldn't have been nicer," she said), even the eerily placid ending.