It was announced that nearly 100 people had been executed in America this year, the highest number since 1951.
In 2005, when a solid majority preferred the death penalty, 59% believed that an innocent person had been executed within the previous five years.
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The marksmen had mistaken her for the sister of one of the Monafeghin who had been executed in the Province of Mazandaran some time ago.
But once the Vichy leaders had been executed for treason after the Liberation, a different imperative prevailed: to keep France united, to avoid recriminations and to draw a veil over the past.
Henry's second wife Ann Boleyn was watching a game of Real Tennis in Whitehall when she was arrested, and according to the official Web site of Hampton Court, legend has it he was playing when told she had been executed.
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Three of those allegedly executed had been sentenced for treason, and two of the nine were Senegalese, said the group.
There had been speculation that Hussein would be executed before Eid Al-Adha -- a holiday period that means Feast of the Sacrifice, celebrated by Muslims around the world at the climax of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
Chandeliers that had been designed in the 1930s but never executed were produced during restoration by Rambusch Studios, the firm responsible for much of the original decoration.
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Guru, who had been on death row since 2002, was executed at Tihar jail in Delhi.
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He had been on death row since 2002 and was executed at Tihar jail in Delhi.
The stylized mural of the original high, arched, Fifth Avenue entrance, a geometric abstraction of industrial gears and wheels executed in gold and aluminum leaf, had been painted over and partly destroyed by a hung acrylic ceiling and fluorescent fixtures.
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Last year, nine EU member states reported a total of 583 failed, foiled or successfully executed attacks, a 24% increase from what had been reported in 2006, according to the European Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol).
Mr. SAVAGE: Well, about a year ago, the Lancet - the British medical journal - had a study of several doctors, saying that men who have been executed in the United States may well have suffered excruciating pain that was to some degree masked by the anesthesia - that they didn't get enough anesthesias to actually give them a painless death.
"Had trials designed to test the question of cardiovascular toxicity directly been launched in 1999 and executed with urgency...perhaps a substantial number of deaths could have been prevented, " Drazen concludes.
However, the true magnitude of the risk exposure was distorted because the positions had been offset in our systems with fictitious, forward-settling, cash ETF positions, allegedly executed by the trader.
Since his release from a Florida prison, Joseph had been making a living talking against the death penalty, based on his personal experience of coming within hours of being executed for a crime he didn't commit.
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