Sentence examples for hanging burning from inspiring English sources

We're all familiar with the old standbys: hanging, burning, stoning.

Millions had seen television shots of young men "necklacing", hanging burning tyres around the necks of, a suspected scab.

The wave of mob killings of blacks in the South — by hanging, burning, shooting and torture — started after the end of Reconstruction.

Furthermore, Milton also vigorously supported the savage and barbaric treatment - hanging, burning and torture - implemented by Cromwell against thousands of ordinary Catholic women who refused to renounce their own religion and convert to the religion of the English state.

You tell her about the terrorizing tactics -- hanging, burning, beating -- of the Ku Klux Klan.

Dilys Powell in The Sunday Times complained "... 17th century hanging, burning, raping, screaming, and Vincent Price as England's prize torture-overseer.

"It's like blaming Christianity for what the Ku Klux Klan did throughout the South, hanging people, burning their houses down, sticking a cross on their lawn and burning it," Mr. Hasan said.

He called it one of "the savage remains of Norman policy" and subsequently, amidst a growing tide of public disgust at the burning of women, Parliament passed the Treason Act 1790, which for women guilty of treason substituted hanging for burning.

Same people who did all the hanging and burning are still alive.

In 1741, New York, driven by fears and rumors of a slave revolt, put 30 slaves and four whites to death by hanging and burning at the stake.

When "Pegs", as they called her, was six, her brothers and sisters took her illictly to see the hanging and burning of a woman coiner.