putting to death in a sentence

Examples

1. But now, under a subsequently enacted death penalty statute, we are drifting backward and resuming federal executions by putting to death McVeigh.
2. The Supreme Court ruled in 1986 that putting to death an insane person would violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
3. Rather than putting to death the captured Ming soldiers and administrators, he magnanimously provided ships and supplies to send them back to China.
4. Attorney James Ellis didn't provide a number, but he said there are clear moral concerns about putting to death mentally retarded killers.
5. Bank notes and coins will not hit the street until 2001, putting to death the German mark, the French franc and the Italian lira.
6. Though Texas leads the country in executions, Arkansas is the only state to revive the practice of putting to death more than one prisoner at a time.
7. Having heard of the persecutions of Jews by Byzantine emperors, Dhu Nuwas retaliated by putting to death some Byzantine merchants who were traveling on business through Himyara.
8. Goods and chattels belonging to the King's subjects he declared forfeited, and he announced his intention of exiling or putting to death all born in England.
9. Russia ranked third in the world in number of executions in 1996, putting to death as many as 140 prisoners with a shot in the back of the head.
10. Tarquin commenced his reign by refusing to bury the dead Servius, and then putting to death a number of leading senators, whom he suspected of remaining loyal to Servius.