Sentence examples for form of execution from inspiring English sources

What made beheading the most merciful form of execution?

The Legislature is considering two bills that would make injection the state's primary form of execution.

Burning at the stake was a traditional form of execution for women found guilty of witchcraft.

Electrocution became the most common form of execution by the middle of the last century, displacing hangings.

Georgia will now join 19 other states that use lethal injection as their only form of execution.

The Legislature has passed a bill making lethal injection the only form of execution in the state.

No one in power in the South wanted that — so they moved the lynchings indoors, in the form of executions.

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The country currently allows five forms of execution: hanging, lethal injection, medical death by deprivation of oxygen, firing squad and electrocution.

Many relate to forms of execution: a creature with guns growing out of its back represents the firing squad while a glowing humanoid with syringes for eyes represents lethal injections.

Cruel forms of execution in Europe included "breaking" on the wheel, boiling in oil, burning at the stake, decapitation by the guillotine or an axe, hanging, drawing and quartering, and drowning.