Sentence examples for executions record from inspiring English sources

Texas set an executions record last year with 40; Oklahoma was second with 11.

The 42 executions recorded in 2007 are the fewest since 1994, when there were 31, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which compiled the report and released it Tuesday.

Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia accounted for 89% of the publicly disclosed executions recorded by Amnesty, which opposes the death penalty in all circumstances.

The French traveller François Bernier, who witnessed such executions, recorded his dismay at the pleasure that the emperor derived from this cruel punishment.

A total of 28 people were put to death in six states, the lowest number of executions recorded in the U.S. since 1991.

At least 1,634 people were put to death in 25 countries last year, the highest number of executions recorded by the London-based human rights group in more than a quarter century, excluding those carried out in China.

(c) Rick Perry's execution record.

The state's execution record has often been criticized as a dehumanizing pursuit of eye-for-an-eye justice.

The execution record names the hangman, James Billington from Bolton, and notes "general demeanour satisfactory, he appears a respectable person".

– John M. Broder — JOHN M. BRODER A question to Mr. Perry on his execution record in Texas actually drew applause from the audience.

Among the material found was the actual execution record for Charles Thomas Wooldridge, the soldier hanged for murdering his wife in 1896, inspiring Wilde's poem and the famous refrain "Yet each man kills the thing he loves … The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword".