The standard method for carrying out executions was hanging, sometimes of several convicts at the same time.

A return to carrying out executions undermines efforts for a lasting reconciliation in Palestine.

They were responsible for publishing announcements, performing land surveys, carrying out executions, and a host of other duties.

The Administration contends that the current system creates built-in delays that average seven years in carrying out executions.

She decried years of delay in carrying out executions, pleasing Senator Thurmond.

His ministry was responsible for maintaining the Imperial Prison, where trials were conducted, and carrying out executions.

The general population murder rate is higher in states carrying out executions than in states where there is no death penalty.

In his capacity as warden, Armontrout was personally responsible for carrying out executions by the use of cyanide gas.

In fact, at least five of the members once worked for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the same department charged with carrying out executions.

In Basra, in the south, where several militias are believed to have infiltrated the police forces, the police have been accused of carrying out executions.

Mr. Van de Kamp sought to assure voters that his personal opposition to the death penalty would not prevent his carrying out executions.

He called the appeals process in these cases "unacceptably inefficient" in terms of satisfying the public desire for carrying out executions in a "reasonably timely way."

Six Peasants Are Shot At times the rebels give warnings to such suspects and hold brief trials before carrying out executions, according to human rights officials.

These included measures to allow officers to make searches without warrants and to speed up carrying out executions, in part by ordering Federal courts to defer to state courts.

Fritz Dietrich was tried and convicted not for his crimes in Latvia, but for carrying out executions of Allied flyers in Germany.

In the past his duties included: executing court judgements, acting as a coroner, transporting prisoners, managing the gaols, and formerly carrying out executions (through an anonymous hangman).

The huge security presence has prompted complaints from Kashmiris, who have accused Indian security forces of repeatedly carrying out executions, abductions and other human rights abuses in the state.

This decision emphasises the crucial need for a UN moratorium on the death penalty, which would make it much more difficult to give in to pressure to begin carrying out executions again.

Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment and the state has the largest "Death Row" population in the country (though Texas is far more active in carrying out executions).

Multiple appeals at the state level and multiple petitions to the Federal courts by inmates have created a system in which the delay in carrying out executions can be as long as 10 years.

Mr. Castaneda's book includes a gripping passage about the self-serving justification Guevara made for carrying out executions within the ranks, even when he understood that the alleged offenses did not merit death.

The doctor said he was solely responsible for counting out dosage amounts of the three drugs administered in sequence, knew of no written protocol by the state for carrying out executions and was at times "improvising."

Let us hope that, first of all, a moratorium will be introduced on carrying out executions, and that the Korean Government will become actively involved in efforts to abolish the death penalty which are being made at the UN.

As the American military pushes the largely Shiite Iraqi security services into a larger role in combating the insurgency, evidence has begun to mount suggesting that the Iraqi forces are carrying out executions in predominantly Sunni neighborhoods.