Sentence examples for the practice of executing from inspiring English sources

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

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.

"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.

And if it should, then it is hard to overlook a huge body of educated, patriotic and law-abiding Indians who have been saying through all available channels that their "conscience" will be satisfied only if their nation ends the practice of executing people.

Canadians are "morally opposed to the practice of executing a human being," wrote Layton in his letter, asking the governor to commute Smith's sentence to life in prison.

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

Attacks on German soldiers were comparatively rare as the German administration made a practice of executing at least five Belgian hostages for each German soldier killed.

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