It's generally a place where enemy units are expected to pass, and which gives reasonable cover for the deployment, execution, and extraction phases of the ambush patrol.

* 1775 – The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.

Wars and military campaigns are guided by strategy, whereas battles take place on a level of planning and execution known as operational mobility.

Previously there was a de facto moratorium on the death penalty in Turkey as the last execution took place in 1984.

* 1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.

Henry Garnet's execution took place on 3 May 1606.

Capital punishment in the Isle of Man was formally abolished by Tynwald in 1993 ( although the last execution on the island took place in 1872 ).

Before his execution in 1553 by Queen Mary for attempting to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, Dudley had built the new stable block and widened the tiltyard to its current form.

After the occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany, the fort was used as a place of execution for Jews, captured Soviets, and others.

For example, many 18th-and 19th-century scholars, including Samuel Johnson, Lewis Theobald, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, and James Halliwell-Phillipps, placed the composition of Henry VIII prior to 1604, as they believed Elizabeth's execution of Mary, Queen of Scots ( the then king James I's mother ) made any vigorous defence of the Tudors politically inappropriate in the England of James I. Oxfordians cite these sources to place the composition of the play within Oxford's lifetime.

The trial and execution of Socrates took place in 399 BC.

The execution took place on 6 July 1535.

Abel was sentenced to " be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, there to be hanged, cut down alive, your members to be cut off and cast in the fire, your bowels burnt before your eyes, your head smitten off, your body to be quartered at the King's will, and God have mercy on your soul.

His governorship was the first in which no state executions took place, due to his opposition to capital punishment and his practice of pardoning and commuting the sentences of people condemned to execution.

His execution took place on June 11, 2001 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Plaque marking the place of Wallace's execution.

* February 7-Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.

** The last execution by hanging in Canada takes place.

" The execution was carried out at once in an open place near the city.

The body was interred by Christian hands near the place of execution, and over it, as well as on the actual scene of his death, churches were afterward erected, which, however, were destroyed by the Vandals.

In some cases, the condemned was forced to carry the crossbeam on his shoulders to the place of execution.

The Roman historian Tacitus records that the city of Rome had a specific place for carrying out executions, situated outside the Esquiline Gate, and had a specific area reserved for the execution of slaves by crucifixion.

The convict then usually had to carry the horizontal beam ( patibulum in Latin ) to the place of execution, but not necessarily the whole cross.

When it was done in an established place of execution, the vertical beam ( stipes ) could even be permanently embedded in the ground.

* The meeting between Anne and Henry shortly before her execution is fictional, and even if such a meeting had taken place, some details of their discussion are implausible.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

The place was quiet.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

It was spoiled now for seed, and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.

He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.

Mama swirled the train in place, and not a step was lost.

The Acropolis had been scheduled for the treatment too, but apparently it was to take place at the time of the full moon when the Athenians themselves, out of respect for the natural beauty of the occasion, were wont to forgo their own usual nocturnal illumination.

With his wife and three or more children he arrived in Boston in March, 1637, and soon found it was no place for anyone looking for liberty of conscience.

One can imagine that with her and Gorton there it was no place for anyone with weak nerves.

At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

It would, however, reach the proctors and other officers in charge of the public-school performances of the incepting bachelors, and the place that any individual obtained in the lists depended greatly on how he comported himself in the public schools during his acts therein as he was incepting.

My discussion with reference to the resolution was that we should commend those citizens who serve as judges of election and who properly discharge their duty and polling place proprietors who make available their private premises, and not by innuendo criticize them.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.

This was one place where Moonan could go for a drink in a back booth without anyone noticing him, or at least coming up and hanging around and wanting to know all the low-down.