Sentence examples for executions going from inspiring English sources
The massive outpouring of anger over Troy Davis's death a year ago has not prevented other executions going ahead in the US amid considerable controversy.
Ohio and other death penalty states have been struggling to keep executions going because supplies of pentobarbital traditionally used in a three-drug mix have all passed their sell-by dates thanks to its Danish manufacturer prohibiting its sale to US prison services.
Mohammad-Javad Larijani, the head of Iran's state-run high council for human rights, has indicated that there are efforts to take a new law to parliament that will result in "almost 80% of the executions" going away but it is unclear if that effort is serious.
Stays of execution and reprieve are granted erratically, according to Judge Boyce Martin, Jr. who described the current application of the death penalty in the US as: "[T]he dysfunctional patchwork of stays and executions going on in this country..
Reuters said that if those two executions go ahead, there will have been 27 executions in the United States in 2015.
The justices cited and applied Wilkerson's and Kemmler's cases as if their executions went off without a hitch.
A call for demonstrations in central Tehran, near Tehran University, on Monday to protest the executions went unheeded, apparently because of a substantial police presence.
A war crimes investigator tells how, beginning on July 14, the male prisoners were assembled in scattered locations and executions went on for two days.
Instead, the executions went ahead, apparently timed to coincide with the western New Year holiday break, when public attention might be expected to be distracted.
Public executions went private as governments realized that the excitement they occasioned would not only fail to improve crime statistics but could even incite disturbances.
She bribed her way into the prison, claiming to be General Montgomery's niece, and informed the French collaborator in command that if the executions went ahead, he would face swift and lethal reprisal from the advancing Allies.
