Sentence examples for were executed for from inspiring English sources

Some were executed for stealing a sheep.

Most were executed for drug offences.

To this the early Christians said no and were executed for it.

Some were executed for offenses as trivial as obtaining a papal license to marry.

Most were executed for murder, but 38 had committed drugs offences, HRW said.

He had sold out the Russian agents — at least eight were executed — for millions in cash.

Others were executed for having urban backgrounds, for working too slowly or for real or imagined disloyalty.

More than 4,000 years ago, two Chinese astrologers were executed for failing to predict a solar eclipse.

All were suppressed with the utmost severity no fewer than five princes of the blood were executed for their complicity.

Good Friends says that in February 13 women and two men were executed for planning to cross into China.

In March two 26-year-old men were executed for the April 2011 terrorist attack at Minsk's busiest subway station.