Sentence examples for unprecedented execution from inspiring English sources

Over the last year, countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia embarked on unprecedented execution sprees which together sent hundreds of non-violent drug offenders to their deaths.

On Tuesday, the president of the American Bar Association asked Hutchinson to delay his "unprecedented execution schedule" because "expediency need not, and should not, be placed above the Constitution's due process protections".

Driven by unprecedented execution sprees in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran, the use of the death penalty has reached an all-time high, according to figures published by Amnesty International.

Arkansas's unprecedented execution spree came to end Thursday, when the state put Kenneth Williams to death by lethal injection.

Arkansas initially announced that it intended to carry out an unprecedented eight executions in just 11 days because its supply of midazolam — a controversial sedative that has led to botched lethal injections in states like Arizona, Alabama and Oklahoma — was set to expire at the end of April.

Earlier this year, the charity's Saudi Arabia researcher Sevag Kechichian observed that the kingdom had reached what an "unprecedented" rate of executions, and called on Salman to "put an end to this shameful record".

And he called the pace with which Arkansas is carrying out these executions "unprecedented".

So in preparing for the unprecedented number of executions in April, Kelley testified, she asked three potential U.S. suppliers for barbiturates, but each refused.

Arkansas' plan to carry out an unprecedented series of executions over a 10-day period starting Monday was halted by a federal judge early Saturday morning, but the state has already sought to appeal the decision.

But Jang's execution is unprecedented because family members are normally dealt with more leniently and quietly.

While the brutality of the killings is not unheard of for the Isis group, the methods of execution appear unprecedented, prompting experts to suggest the footage could point towards a new style of video showing the reign of terror in the so-called "Islamic State" territories.