Sentence examples for official executions from inspiring English sources

In all, the committee oversaw some 17,000 official executions.

Until then, the march goes on, even if the official executions do not.

Almost 17,000 people were killed by official executions during the Reign of Terror, with historians estimating hundreds of thousands more deaths as part of the revolts throughout France or as unrecorded murders.

China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world's official executions put together – at least 1,718 in 2008 according to Amnesty International, although the real figure is likely to be much higher.

There are more official executions here each year than in the rest of the world combined and it is still illegal to say anything publicly against the government.

A total of 854 people have already been executed in the Islamic Republic in the first 10 months of 2015, according to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC), which records "unofficial," "semiofficial" and "official" executions.

The warden will designate a recorder who will begin logging execution activities in the official execution log book...

Jane Wenham was accused of witchery in the Hertfordshire village of Walkern in 1712, three years before the last official execution for witchcraft in England.

The state has let into its execution chamber someone who was not a member of the official execution team, a doctor who tried unsuccessfully to insert an intravenous line into an inmate's arm.

The state needs two vials to inject into each condemned prisoner, and a further two as a back-up in case of problems with the first, as outlined in its official execution procedures.

You's was the first and only official execution ever to take place in Pacific County.