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• The Romans even figured out how to deter cowardice that causes the death of others with the technique called decimation: If a legion lost a battle and there was suspicion of cowardice, 10 percent of the soldiers and commanders - usually chosen at random - were put to death. NYT > Home Page
• To cite another sad example: in southern France a group of Albigensian vegetarians (a Cartharist religious group) were put to death by hanging in 1052 because they refused to kill a chicken!
• I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.
• Thousands of suspects, military and civilian, were put to death.
• We are repeatedly told in the Torah that murderers - and certain other miscreants - should be put to death so that the community can be purged of their contaminating presence.
• This power soon corrupted them and people were put to death for daring to disobey the laws.
• He concludes the volume with a conspectus that draws all these groups into a broad picture of the social environment within which Jesus ministered, taught, was arrested and put to death.
• Those put to death by firing squad included three generals.
• Christ, says the Bible, was put to death in the flesh; but quickened, that is, brought to life, by the Spirit. Twenty-Five Village Sermons
• It permitted specified doctors to put to death those suffering from grave mental or physical disabilities.