Sentence examples for we stopped executing from inspiring English sources

Shortly after torture was abjured, we stopped executing witches: all part of a move away from medieval legal mores and their replacement with the modern rule of law.

Since the ban, some states have simply stopped executing people, and by 2013 the number of executions in the US hit its lowest point since 1994.

For example, he stopped executing swift, mighty gestures and began representing them.

Germany, Austria, and Italy stopped executing criminals after the Second World War.

Milne said Australia should cease collaborating with Indonesian drug authorities until the country stopped executing drug smugglers of any nationality.

Some would say it did move on in the early 19th century, when the Ottoman empire stopped executing apostates.

As I have written, and it bears repeating, one sure solution to botched executions is to stop executing people.

One of them was to stop executing convicts who were under 18 at the time of their crime.

Human rights groups persuaded the US government to stop executing juvenile offenders by pointing out that only seven countries apart from America Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabiaandnd Yemen) had executed juveniles since 1990.

In 2006, a federal district court ordered California to stop executing people because the state's three-drug protocol for lethal injection lacked "reliability".

America has even refused to stop executing those convicted as juveniles or the mentally retarded, restrictions which are accepted by many other governments.