For the next six years, the Soviets, using tactics of intimidation, imprisonment, execution, assassination, election rigging, and show trials, eliminated all political opposition.
A United Nations report released earlier this year showed that over the past two decades China has forcibly returned thousands of North Koreans, almost all of whom have then been subjected to "imprisonment, execution, torture, arbitrary detention, deliberate starvation, illegal cavity searches, forced abortions and other sexual violence".
"Escape From Camp 14" also includes simple line drawings (as Mr. Shin's book had) that give the most traumatic parts of his story — torture, imprisonment, maiming, executions — the look of action comics.
One example of political hysteria is the moral panic that gripped Salem from 1691 - 3, leading to trials, torture, imprisonment, and executions.
In cases where the judgment is poised precariously between life imprisonment and execution, the possibility that lives might eventually be saved could just tilt the balance in execution's favor.
His opposition to Korea's closed-door policy brought about his imprisonment and execution.
His involvement in a plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler led to his imprisonment and execution.
Discovery of the plot led to Norfolk's imprisonment and execution.
There they faced punishment ranging from imprisonment to execution, according to refugees from the North.
Donizetti's drama, about the imprisonment and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, was composed in 1834 and 1835.
