Sentence examples for executions place from inspiring English sources

Pakistan's executions place it third in Amnesty's rankings of executing countries for 2015, below Iran in second place and China in first.

Many of the gory habits of the early modern age -- public executions, placing heads upon pikes and providing the bloody shirt of a victim -- arose from the need to prove the death of adversaries, Mr. Stephens said.

The country's enormous surge in executions places it among the world's most active executioners.

While reports of the Islamic State carrying out mass executions, placing heads on fence posts and imposing harsh religious restrictions have sparked concern across the world, they haven't elicited military involvement until now.

To drive home the punitive possibilities he is given a breathtaking roller coaster tour through peaks, over chasms and past torture chambers and execution places.

Take a hike Take a trail of three squares through Old Havana that starts in Plaza Vieja (7), where festivals and executions took place.

It is home to the state's prison headquarters and executions take place there.

Nine states executed death-row inmates last year, but three quarters of the 43 executions took place in just four states: Texas (15), and Arizona, Mississippi and Oklahoma (each with six).

The trials and executions took place in 1692.

The executions took place months later without warning.

Public sentencing rallies, and occasionally public executions, took place.One man began turning this culture round.