Sentence examples for were executed for having from inspiring English sources

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

A Sioux uprising in 1862 culminated in a mass hanging at Mankato on December 26, when 38 Sioux were executed for having massacred white settlers (President Abraham Lincoln reduced the number from more than 300 sentenced to death); the execution spot is marked by a monument.

In July the former head of China's State Food and Drug Administration was executed for having taken $850,000 in bribes from eight pharmaceutical companies and for having approved fake drugs during his tenure (1998 2005).

The scion of a rich Protestant family, Thököly moved to Transylvania after his father was executed for having had a role in the Hungarian magnates' conspiracy against the Habsburg emperor Leopold I (1670).

1274 April 17, 1355 Venice, Italy Marin Falier, Italian Marino Faliero (born 1274 died April 17 , 1355 Venice) leading official in Venice and doge from 1354 to 1355, who was executed for having led a plot against the ruling patricians.

Gray was executed for having taken a 3-year-old girl into a woods, then raping her, sodomizing her and pushing her face into a bog until she choked.

Yet his desire to be executed for having murdered in 2005 his six-month-old son was still taken by the justice system to be a sane expression of choice, and not as some experts decried a form of judicially approved suicide.

But you likely don't know about an especially grim episode that occurred 21 years later, in the midst of a colony-wide sin outbreak, when a man named Thomas Granger was executed for having sex with a number of animals, including the bird that would become the Thanksgiving mascot.

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

There are superficial similarities between Tess and Brown: both women were executed for murdering men who had wronged them in some way.

The trial reaches a dramatic climax during an investigation into the role of defendant Ernst Janning Burt Lancasterr) in a case he had presided over in which a Jewish man was executed for allegedly having an affair with a non-Jewish woman.