Sentence examples similar to sanctioned for execution from inspiring English sources

Giap sanctioned the execution of many non-Communist nationalists, and he censored nationalist newspapers to conform with Communist Party directives.

The order also sanctioned immediate execution of any individuals found hiding in the ruins.

Kenosha was also the site of the last judicially sanctioned execution (1851) in Wisconsin (and the only execution after Wisconsin became a state); some 3,000 people gathered in the city to watch the execution of a resident convicted of killing his wife, and many believe that the execution sparked the legislature to abolish the death penalty in the state two years later.

Few would suggest that there is moral equivalence between the terrorist mass killing of cartoonists for purported blasphemy and the judicially sanctioned execution of a Nazi war criminal.

Beheadings often public are the sanctioned form of execution in Saudi Arabia, where sharia law commands secular and political life.

After a previous rebellion, he sanctioned summary executions because, he said, God told him to.

And, despite vehement urgings, she repeatedly refused to sanction the execution of her Catholic cousin, Mary Queen of Scots.

How is protesting government sanctioned executions, somehow anti-American?

The Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) said it had been a "public execution" sanctioned by UVF leaders.

75% declared for execution.

Connecticut provides for execution by lethal injection.