Sentence examples for executions dropped from inspiring English sources
By comparison, executions dropped markedly in Texas this year after the period from 1997 to 2000 under the tenure of Gov. George W. Bush when the state executed a record 132 people.
Over all, the number of executions dropped from 85 in 2000 to 66 in 2001, and five inmates were freed from death rows, bringing the total to 98 since 1973.
"Our level of execution dropped across the board," Hurdle said.
This way, compared with the initial straightforward MATLAB implementation (for test purposes) time execution drops from 41 to 13.7 s.
The number of executions nationally dropped to 43 last year from 98 in 1998.
Over the past fifteen years, both death sentences and executions have dropped dramatically.
Though the number of executions has dropped sharply, more than 3,000 people are still put to death every year.
Even before the court acted, executions had dropped to the lowest level in more than a decade.
Still, under Mr. Perry, in part because of the two Supreme Court decisions, executions have dropped from a peak of 33 in 2002 to 17 last year and 11 so far this year.
By the 1950s, the number of executions had dropped to an average of 72 per year, and in the 1960s a frontal legal assault, with the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund in the forefront, was launched against the death penalty.12 At the same time, public support for capital punishment waned, reaching an all-time low of 42percentt in 1966.
