In war-time all executions are not judicial.

'It is supposed that there were no executions for witchcraft in England subsequently to the year 1682; but the Statute of I James I, c. 12, so minute in its enactments against witches, was not repealed till the 9 Geo.

It looked as if he and Thorndyke were contemplating a few private executions with subsequent post-mortems on the victims.

There were only two or three capital executions for heresy.

It does not belong to the reformation, nor do the executions of a few other noblemen.

Even John Quincy Adams justified his acts in Florida, when his enemies were loud in their complaints of his needless executions, especially of two British traders, Arbuthnot and Ambruter, whom he had court-martialled and shot as abettors of the Indians.

To these executions succeeded certain measures of precaution.

This expedient, violent as it was, was still, as things stood, the most lenient, and the enraged Greeks of the Roman party were far from content with the paucity of the executions.

But I did not want to take upon myself the initiative of so energetic a measure, or draw upon myself the odium of such executions as would have been necessary to extricate obedience and victory from such a chaos.

The executions did not take place in the apartments.

It belongs to the Executive not to suffer the executions under these decisions to transcend the great purpose for which punishment is necessary.

We have never heard of any executions of Roman citizens by the orders of Tarquinius, but this man both at Suessa murdered the man whom he had thrown into prison, and at Brundusium massacred about three hundred most gallant men and most virtuous citizens.

He then proceeded with a few neglected executions.

The message has the following on the frequency of homicides: "We hear of homicides in different parts of the state continually, and yet how few convictions for murder, and still fewer executions?

the intrinsic element, the principle of slavery; MEN sold, bartered, leased, mortgaged, bequeathed, invoiced, shipped in cargoes, stored as goods, taken on executions, and knocked off at public outcry!

the intrinsic element, the principle of slavery; MEN, bartered, leased, mortgaged, bequeathed, invoiced, shipped in cargoes, stored as goods, taken on executions, and knocked off at a public outcry!

Although this monarch is humane and impartial, and possesses nothing of the ferocious character of his predecessors, yet seldom a day passes without some executions.

In the middle ages, it was, in some states, the duty of the youngest magistrates to perform the executions with the sword.

BOERHAAVE, Herman, attacks, never answered, ii. 61, n. 4; executions, on, iv.

154, n. i; 155, n. 4; Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4; exact likeness, draws an, i. 486; executions, love of seeing, ii. 93, n. 3; iii. 384, n. 1; iv.

See EXECUTIONS, NEWGATE, and TYBURN.

EXECUTIONS, account of the capital convictions in 1783-5, iv. 328, n. 1, 329, n. 2, 359, n. 2; Boswell's love of seeing them: See under BOSWELL; condemnation sermon at Oxford, i. 273; capital punishment, cruel instance of, i. 147, n. 1; Newgate, removed to, iv. 188; Rambler, mentioned in the, iv.

His uncle Tatum considered it a useful moral lesson to take all his apprentices to hear the tragedy of George Barnwell, and to witness public executions.

The result of his investigations was a settled conviction that executions did not tend to diminish crime, but rather to increase it, by their demoralizing effect on the community.

XL. CROMWELL'S METHODS Loss of life during the eight years of war, Punishment of the vanquished, Executions, Wholesale scheme of eviction, The New Owners, "The Burren," Sale of women to the West Indian plantations, Dissatisfaction amongst the soldiers and debenture holders, Irish Cromwellians. XLI.