Sentence examples for orders the execution from inspiring English sources
He orders the execution of Lord Hastings when that courtier proves loyal to King Edward's children.
He is also brutal: in one scene, he orders the execution of one in every ten men from a unit that deserted a Civil War battle.
To set an example, he orders the execution of a young nobleman, Claudio (Andre Holland), who has failed to post his marriage banns but whose partner is with child.
The story opens with a beheading — Merlin arrives in Camelot on the day King Uther (Anthony Head) orders the execution of a man accused of witchcraft, which the king had banned (along with all uses of magic) 20 years earlier.
Even in stories that perform the task Booker prescribes, there are jarring details: when Odysseus returns to Ithaca, he not only kills his wife's suitors but orders the execution of a dozen serving-women who had consorted with them.
In "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" (1933), a warlord on the make casually orders the execution of his captives, then justifies it to his comely American guest as a more humane solution than letting them die of starvation in prison.
He orders the executions of Bobby Baccalieri, who is shot to death; Silvio, who ends up comatose; and Tony, who goes into hiding.
Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer voted to order the execution postponed.
Lt. Edwin Lilly, his subordinate, ordered the execution of wounded prisoners.
He was accused of ordering the execution of 148 people.
The Commonwealth suspended Nigeria in 1995 after General Abacha ordered the execution of the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.
