Sentence examples for the form of execution from inspiring English sources

A rabid anti-Semite, he was said to have agreed with Himmler at a conference in 1942 that the gas chamber should be the form of execution used in the slaughter of Jews.

His bill made it through a committee, but was gutted.Abolitionists have had more luck, at least temporarily, by arguing that lethal injection, the form of execution most widely adopted, is excruciatingly painful.

"I find this ghoulish and ironic -- proponents trying to clean up the form of execution so they can keep their death penalty," said Michael Manley, an English professor at the Columbus College of Art and Design and an Amnesty International volunteer who in recent years has organized anti-capital punishment protests in Ohio that usually were sparsely attended.

Rather, it is a path freely chosen...Instead of remaining in his initial place of power, or trading it for a human role of honor and prestige, [Jesus] lives as the lowliest of human beings, a slave, and accepts the form of execution reserved for slaves, namely death on a cross".

No one in power in the South wanted that — so they moved the lynchings indoors, in the form of executions.

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Since then, evidence has continued to mount, showing the huge injustice of the death penalty — and the particular barbarism of this form of execution.

In this form of execution, the accused was trapped between two boats (or in a hollowed-out tree trunk) and force-fed milk and honey.

While the preceding cases are examples of rebels or military adversaries being blown from guns, the Mughal era also contained a few examples of using this form of execution for other types of perceived crime.

Some monarchs also adopted this form of execution for their own entertainment.

It's not clear whether al-Nimr was beheaded with a sword, though Saudis routinely use that form of execution.