Sentence examples for ordered the execution from inspiring English sources

Capone allegedly ordered the execution, suspecting Yale of a liquor hijacking.

The justices ordered the execution postponed until they decide whether to review the case.

Lt. Edwin Lilly, his subordinate, ordered the execution of wounded prisoners.

In 1622 he ordered the execution of 120 missionaries and Japanese converts.

After three Communists killed a German officer, the Nazis ordered the execution of 50 prisoners.

A fatwa issued by Khomeini in 1988 ordered the execution of apostates who refused to recant.

It was near Beledweyne, when al-Shabaab again ordered the execution of an elder.

He presided over the courts during a period when they ordered the execution of thousands of opposition members.

He set up a tribunal that ordered the execution of about 2,900 insurgents in the Vendée.

During his controversial tenure in command in Missouri, Gen. John C. Frémont ordered the execution, after court-martial, of persons in arms against the United States.

In order to ensure the succession of a younger generation of leaders, Hoxha in 1981 ordered the execution of several leading party and government officials.