7 sentences with 'execution'
Example sentences and phrases with the word execution and other words derived from it.
• « Roman soldiers were subject to brutal discipline, which could go as far as summary execution if they were judged negligent in their duties - one of the worst was falling asleep on guard duty, which was punishable by a beating to death by one's comrades. »
• « After the king's execution in 1649, England became a dictatorship (technically republican) under Cromwell, who assumed the title of Lord Protector in 1649. »
• « Louis XVI was executed by guillotine, the newly invented "humane" method of execution favoured by the revolutionary government, and his head exposed to the crowd. »
• « They made extensive use of the guillotine, a new "humane" execution technology named after the doctor who invented it, and their leader was the famous Maximilien Robespierre, whom his followers called "the Incorruptible" for his resolute approach to seeing the Revolution succeed. »
• « Fearing that his execution would make him a martyr to the French, the coalition leadership opted to exile Napoleon instead, and he was sent to an estate on the small Mediterranean island of Elba, near his native Corsica. »
• « Burke himself was particularly aggrieved by the execution of the French queen Marie Antoinette, whom he saw as a perfectly innocent victim. »
• « As the date set for the execution approached, the lies and distortions of the truth multiplied in the media, which echoed the farce staged by Coleman by presenting the case as that of "an innocent man wrongly convicted in a village". »