Sentence examples for hasty execution from inspiring English sources
But in 1804, when Napoleon stunned France with the unfair trial and hasty execution of the Duke d'Enghien on a flimsy pretext of conspiracy, Chateaubriand resigned his post in protest.
Other legal petitions surrounded Arkansas's use of midazolam, the controversial sedative that has been blamed for botched executions in states including Arizona and Oklahoma, and others questioned the state's hasty execution schedule, which shortened the defendants' time for measures such as clemency reviews.
Human rights activists have been alarmed by the hasty executions, which were carried out without having been endorsed by Iran's Supreme Court.
The fact that it is at odds with the authorities means that art of this kind often feels hectic in mood, hasty in execution, urgently political in its impulses, and prepared for the fact that it may disappear again just as quickly as it has appeared because those who see it may regard it as an offence to the eye.
The proverbial "Jeddart justice," according to which a man was hanged first and tried afterward, seems to have been a hasty generalization from the solitary summary execution of a gang of rogues.
But in an added gesture of defiance the Warfalla steadfastly refused, ultimately forcing Colonel Qaddafi to order the executions himself after a hasty trial in early 1997.
After a hasty trial, the local Spanish officials executed 53 would-be insurgents, eight of whom were United States citizens; orders from Madrid to delay the executions arrived too late.
In the minutes between the initial reports of Qaddafi's capture and the confirmation of his frenzied execution, the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza posted a hasty but convincing analysis of the way that the welcome news from Libya will affect Barack Obama's bid for reëlection.
