Sentence examples for old execution from inspiring English sources

The old execution ground at the cemetery was deserted when I visited late one recent afternoon, but a bouquet of red roses lay drying against the wall, beneath a cluster of bullet gouges.

Using an old execution state slows down the computer.

This hasn't stopped America from executing its death row prisoners; instead, authorities have started concocting dangerously experimental drug combinations or returning to older execution methods.

On April 29, convicted murderer Clayton Lockett was brought into the old Oklahoma execution chamber to die by lethal injection, which proponents say is a painless method of execution.

It is one of three drugs the state plans to use in the 49-year-old's execution.

"I grew up in old-fashioned execution, blocking, tackling, being able to run the pass route well enough to get open, throw the ball well enough to complete it," Saban said.

According to older residents, executions and the burning of homes in broad daylight were a regular sight here.

The law review published essays by Schaeffer and Rousas John Rushdoony, a prominent Dominionist who has called for a pure Christian theocracy in which Old Testament law — execution for adulterers and homosexuals, for example — would be instituted.

Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center speculated that the resurgence of old methods of execution, like firing squad and electric chair, would seem so barbaric to the American public that it may actually help bring a swift end to the death penalty in the US.

It may be the oldest form of execution in the world, and it is certainly among the most barbaric.

He next made Shahr-e zībā (2004; Beautiful City), which explores the concept of justice through the story of an 18-year-old prisoner awaiting execution for the murder of his girlfriend while his sister works to save his life by trying to persuade the murdered girl's father to give his consent for clemency.