judicial execution
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The hanging was the only judicial execution ever held in the state of Israel.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024
As ministers insisted Geronimo must be put down, Johnson's 80-year-old father Stanley appealed for the "judicial execution" to be avoided so Geronimo could live in peace in the English county of Gloucestershire.
From Reuters • Aug. 9, 2021
And the park's first extensively documented judicial execution of a grizzly soon followed.
From Slate • Aug. 9, 2015
People are regularly sentenced to death in Sri Lanka but the last judicial execution happened in 1976 so there are hundreds on death row.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2012
The most that can be said in palliation of this custom is, that almost always such a scene presented the judicial execution of criminals, invested with the solemnities of religion.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry
