When inside the city, the lictors removed the axes from the fasces to show that a citizen could not be executed without a trial.

As each citizen is executed, the others are afraid to object out of fear that they will be next.

Prominent citizens of villages were often taken as hostages and executed if the resistance fighters did not surrender.

A Paraguayan citizen was executed tonight in Virginia for murder in a case that began as a terrible crime and became an international incident.

Then the garrison's men (except for the German soldiers) were drowned or got their throat cut by the duke's troops, and eminent citizens were executed.

The town of 3,000 people was plundered and burned to the ground, and nine local citizens were executed.

Many prominent citizen from Serbian community were interned and later executed.

As one of my fellow Members said, just recently a British citizen was actually executed, despite the fact that he was mentally ill.

In the last eight years, 15 foreign citizens have been executed by seven states, according to Mr. Warren's list.