Sentence examples for there were executions from inspiring English sources

There were executions in the Gulag, usually a pistol shot to the back of the head; sometimes exhaust fumes were used to asphyxiate prisoners.

There are execution risks here too.

Three people have been executed since 2004, and there were no executions for eight years before that.

Last year, there were 46 executions.

There were public executions.

"There were mock executions in our cells.

(Outside of Egypt there were few executions).

There were no executions last year.

There were two executions recently.

There were trials, executions and murders.

And at that time, there were mass executions in Iraq.