Sentence examples for ordered the execution of from inspiring English sources

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.

The Commonwealth suspended Nigeria in 1995 after General Abacha ordered the execution of the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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.

Kesselring's subordinate in Italy, Gen. Anton Dostler, was accused of having ordered the execution of 15 Office of Strategic Services (OSS) prisoners of war in March 1944.

Four days later he ordered the execution of more than 80 leaders of Sten Sture's Swedish Nationalist Party after they had been accused of heresy by Gustav Trolle.