Two other reasons for this title are that he would support his aged father-in-law with his hand at Senate meetings, and that he had saved those men that Hadrian, during his period of ill-health, had condemned to death.

Almagro was condemned to death and decapitated while in confinement on July 8, 1538 ( other sources suggest he was garrotted, which would have been more likely for a Christian man of fame ).

Each of the condemned, said Coke, would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground.

Israel was divided in accepting the money. The agreement was condemned by some Israelis as simply an expedient whereby Germany would buy off Jewish survivors to regain credibility on the international stage, and Adenauer was criticised for being too lenient towards politically compromised individuals whose past treatment of Jews was at best questionable.

Thucydides reports that the Corinthians condemned Sparta's inactivity up to that point, warning the Spartans that if they continued to remain passive while the Athenians were energetically active, they would soon find themselves outflanked and without allies.

Fearing that he would be unjustly condemned, Alcibiades defected to Sparta and Nicias was placed in charge of the mission.

Peine forte et dure ( Law French for " hard and forceful punishment ") was a method of torture formerly used in the common law legal system, in which a defendant who refused to plead (" stood mute ") would be subjected to having heavier and heavier stones placed upon his or her chest until a plea was entered, or as the weight of the stones on the chest became too great for the condemned to breathe, fatal suffocation would occur.

Several police organizations condemned this study and suggested more studies like this would make them hesitant to pull over visible minorities.

( 16 trial judges eat the liver of a hanged man, if the hanged man comes down from the gallows he would eat the 16 livers from the 16 judges who condemned him )

It has been claimed that, in some cases, the condemned would be set free, given several hours ' head start and then hunted down and put to death.

This was partly provoked by John XXII's extreme claims of authority over the empire and also partly by Louis IV's support of the spiritual Franciscans, whom John XXII condemned in the Papal bull Quorumdam exigit for their insistence on evangelical poverty and their belief that mendicant friars would replace the priesthood and sacraments of the Church.

Upright posts would presumably be fixed permanently in that place, and the crossbeam, with the condemned person perhaps already nailed to it, would then be attached to the post.

He conjectured that the condemned would have severe difficulty inhaling, due to hyper-expansion of the chest muscles and lungs.

When no longer able to lift himself, the condemned would die within a few minutes.

Since olive trees are not very tall, this would suggest that the condemned was crucified at eye level.

A cruel prelude was occasionally scourging, which would cause the condemned to lose a large amount of blood, and approach a state of shock.

King Louis XVI had originally decreed that condemned criminals would be the first pilots, but de Rozier, along with Marquis François d ' Arlandes, successfully petitioned for the honor.

When inflation crept up that year, he condemned the Chancellor Nigel Lawson's policy of printing money so sterling would shadow the German deutschmark and said that it was for the UK to join the European Monetary System.

Republican Frémont condemned the Kansas – Nebraska Act and crusaded against the expansion of slavery, while Buchanan, a Democrat, warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war.

The Kongelov had no provisions for when the ruler was insane and unfit for government, so as a commoner who had imposed himself in the circles of nobility, he was condemned as being guilty of lèse majesté and usurpation of the royal authority, both capital offences according to paragraphs 2 and 26 of the Kongelov, although he had only done what many had done before him, and others would do after him with no repercussions.

Nestorius pleaded with Roman Emperor Theodosius II to call a council in which all grievances could be aired, hoping that he would be vindicated and Cyril condemned.

To all who were present with them either in prison or at the place where the sentance was executed, they owned that having engaged in the cause of God and their country, they were not at all ashamed to suffer in the manner their enemies thought fit, openly avowing the inward satisfaction of their minds when they reflected upon the actions for which they had been condemned, not doubting the revival of the same cause ; and that a time should come when men would have better thoughts of their persons and proceedings.

Afterwards Rand realizes to his own horror that he has channeled the One Power and is therefore condemned to a fate of insanity and horrific death.

The Vatican also had great reservations about the creation of small successor states which, in the view of Gasparri, were not viable economically and therefore condemned to economic misery.

The event was therefore a sacrificium in the strict sense of the term, and Christian writers later condemned it as human sacrifice.

For instance the Moscow Patriarchate has repeatedly strongly condemned what it describes as Catholic proselytism of Orthodox Christians within Russia and has therefore opposed a Catholic construction project in an area of Russia where the Catholic community is small.

The judges who condemned Grandier ordered that he be put to the " extraordinary question ", a form of torture which was usually, but not immediately, fatal, and was therefore only administered to victims who were to be executed immediately afterwards.

Following, therefore, the canons and the Fathers, we hold him alien and condemned by reason of his blasphemies, and we anathematize him ".

Since Michaud did not do so and even added fuel to the fire, Bouchard therefore condemned the remarks in the name of his party and the government.

Parliamentary Gallicanism, therefore, was of much wider scope than episcopal ; indeed, it was often disavowed by the bishops of France, and about twenty of them condemned Pierre Pithou's book when a new edition of it was published, in 1638, by the brothers Dupuy.

The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II. 24 refers to the passage “ And when the elders had set another woman who had sinned before Him, and had left the sentence to Him, and were gone out, our Lord, the Searcher of the hearts, inquiring of her whether the elders had condemned her, and being answered No, He said unto her: “ Go thy way therefore, for neither do I condemn thee .” Book II is generally dated to the late third century ( Von Drey, Krabbe, Bunsen, Funk ).

KCSU condemned the action as a " needlessly divisive and violent way to make a political point ... Union flag is a symbol and therefore can mean different things to different people in different contexts ".

One of their lawyers suggested before the execution that since the condemned did not recognize the court, there is no way left for making appeal to the verdict, and therefore the verdict should become final.

Once the court dermined that Byng had " failed to do his utmost ", it had no discretion over punishment under the Articles of War, and therefore condemned Byng to death.

* In July 2005, Italian Serie B champions Genoa was arbitrarily placed last in the division, and therefore condemned to relegation in Serie C1, after it was revealed that they bribed their opponents in the final match of the season, Venezia to throw the match.

Under English law, a condemned prisoner was no longer alive and therefore did not have the right to speak, and Bradshaw followed this tradition strictly.

International bodies such as the United Nations have condemned Israel's Basic Law concerning Jerusalem as a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and therefore hold that the establishment of the city as Israel's capital is against international law.

And therefore they are to be condemned who say they can no more sin as long as they live here ; or deny the place of forgiveness to such as truly repent.

It would seem, therefore, that Benteen must be condemned ; yet if he had tried to carry out the order it is possible his three companies would have been hacked to pieces en route.

He therefore condemned the decision as a " radical change in our government system " that " would place the states of the Union in a condition of inferiority never dreamed of when the Constitution was adopted or when the Eleventh Amendment was made a part of the supreme law of the land.

Antiquity is not therefore to be condemned, however, if in some places it at one time observed that custom.

Thus, he recalled the Jesuit Cardinal Bellarmin's sentences concerning the authority of religious councils concerning matters of dogma versus de facto issues ; he also recalled the debate between St Athanasius and St Basil concerning the interpretation of Dionysus of Alexandria, who was accused by Basil of Arianism and therefore convoked before the Pope Dionysius in 262 ; or the various contradictory papal interpretations given to the Scythian monks ; as well as another debate concerning Pope Honorius I, who had been later anathematized by the Third Council of Constantinople, although Cardinal Bellarmin defended Honorius ' orthodoxy, claiming that the condemned propositions were not to be found in Honorius.