Sentence examples for had been executed for from inspiring English sources

A sixteen-year-old girl named Atefeh Sahaaleh had been executed for "acts incompatible with chastity".

Reformers had been executed for less, but Luther was by now a very popular man throughout Europe.

Pyongyang on Friday announced that Mr Jang had been executed for plotting to overthrow the leadership of his nephew, Kim Jong-un.

The previous morning, Chongqing's former deputy police chief and top justice official, Wen Qiang, had been executed for corruption, rape and shielding mafias.

The second was that his father – whom he knew had died when he was not quite a year old – had been executed for murder.

We knew that our house was bugged, and we knew many family friends who had been executed for saying the "wrong thing" about his policies or his mistress.

A26 Governor Delays Execution Hours before she was to have been executed for the murders of her husband and children, a Texas woman was spared when Gov. Rick Perry granted her a 120-day reprieve to review disputed evidence.

There has not been an execution for rape in the United States since 1964, and no one has been executed for any crime that did not involve a killing since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Some people have been executed for the crime.

Ri was said to have been executed for falling asleep during a meeting chaired by Kim.

In most cases in Iran people put to death have been executed for drug offences.