Reign of Terror June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, of which 2,639 were in Paris. There was a sense of emergency among leading politicians in France in the summer of 1793 between the widespread civil war and counter-revolution. Bertrand Barère exclaimed on 5 September 1793 in the Convention: "Let's make terror the order of the day!" They were determined to avoid street violence such as the September Massacres of 1792 by taking violence into their own hands as an instrument of government. Robespierre in February 1794 in a speech explained the necessity of
Execution of Nimr al-Nimr Sheikh Nimr. Boustan Street in Tehran was renamed Nimr Baqir al-Nimr Street soon after the execution. Execution of Nimr al-Nimr Shaykh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr was a prominent Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia who was among 47 people executed on 2 January 2016 for terrorism offences. Others executed included Sunnis who had been convicted of involvement in terror attacks linked to al-Qaeda which took place in 2003. Various demonstrations against the execution of al-Nimr in different countries of the globe have been reporting by the different news channel since his execution. In October 2014, Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court approved a death