In written English, the phrase "has been executed for" is correct and can be used in certain contexts.
For example: "The murderer has been executed for his crime."
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.
South Korean media has reported that the North Korean military chief of staff has been executed for corruption and factionalism.
Amiry-Moghaddam said that since November when the law was signed by the president, Hassan Rouhani, "nobody that we know of has been executed for such offences".
The once-powerful uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been executed for treason after being branded "despicable human scum", according to the state news agency.
While desertion during wartime can be punished with death, no soldier has been executed for the crime since the second world war.
"I think that any reasonable person would have to reach that conclusion that someone has been executed for a crime they didn't commit.
Julissa suffered the spinal injury performing a vault she has been executing for three years--a round-off onto a springboard, a back handspring onto the vaulting horse.
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.
