Sentence examples for practice of executing from inspiring English sources

Earlier this month, Amnesty International began a campaign to abolish what it calls the "heinous practice" of executing juvenile offenders.

His intervention was partly an effort to end the practice of executing minors, the daily Etemad reported.

You had the Beatles coming up and, at the same time, there was still this Victorian practice of executing people – and sometimes innocent people.

Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy said the practice of executing 16- and 17-year-olds violated the Eighth Amendment, conflicted with "evolving standards of decency" and isolated the United States from the rest of the world.

Their ultimate aim is to persuade the newly elected Democratic Progressive party government of president Tsai Ing-wen that she should abandon capital punishment, a shift that would signal the island's political distance from mainland China's practice of executing thousands of prisoners a year.

"He asked me if I had heard the news, and he told me that the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in favor of Simmons," Soto-Fong said by telephone last week, referring to the court's decision, by a five-to-four vote, to bar the practice of executing juvenile offenders.

Maliki, referencing the killing of a prominent cleric in Iraq in 1980, said Iraqis "strongly condemn these detestable sectarian practices and affirm that the crime of executing Sheikh al-Nimr will topple the Saudi regime as the crime of executing the martyr al-Sadr did to Saddam Hussein".

The former Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, has warned the executions could lead to the downfall of the gulf kingdom and said the country "strongly condemned these detestable sectarian practices and affirm that the crime of executing Sheikh al-Nimr will topple the Saudi regime".

President Trump spoke fondly again on Friday about the practice — popular among some anti-Democratic leaders — of executing drug traffickers.

Until the time of the painters of the Barbizon school in mid-19th-century France, it was normal practice to execute rough sketches of landscape subjects in the open air and produce finished paintings in the studio.

But, having followed the tradition of planning his funeral while still in office, there had been decades of preparations and practice to execute his wishes.