Sentence examples for public killings from inspiring English sources

Crucifixions and stonings, sexual slavery, as well as the public killings of journalists and aid workers, have cowed enemies.

Rather, he said, the Mexicans face a fragmented and loose confederation of heavily armed feuding gangs with a propensity for public killings unmatched by the Mafia.

Ironically, his death took place beside a usually busy traffic intersection known as the clock roundabout, where Isis carries out public killings.

As a magistrate and mayor of Bordeaux, he was expected to order tortures and public killings, but refused to do so.

Much later, Carlin performed a bit about the motives behind our most notorious public killings: It's also interesting to notice who it is we assassinate.

Such violence is endemic in the South Pacific island nation, and a rise in the number of public killings in the past year has prompted international condemnation and embarrassed the government of Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.

Then, some time in the last two years, it widened to include the public killing of accused prostitutes.

In July, dozens of women – and men – took to the streets of Kabul to protest against the public killing of an Afghan woman accused of adultery.

If the aftermath of the very public killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson has taught us anything, it's that cops should never default to their worst instincts when it comes to young black bodies in a "bad" part of town.

While there is a certain appeal to Mr. Lynch's suggestion that "such an extreme exercise of the public will and the state's power demands a public witness," the reality is that those of us who can stomach the spectacle of a public killing would tune in and those of us who cannot would not.

In the first such public killing by the militants in about two years, she was placed in a hole and stoned to death on Oct. 28 in a rebel-held port city, Kismayu, in front of a crowd, after local leaders said she was guilty under Shariah, the legal code of Islam based on the Koran.