91.   Public executions are common in some other Arab countries.

92.   Public executions of murderers, amputations of thieves and lashings for lesser offenses are all part of the stern judicial code.

93.   Russia on Friday demanded a halt to public executions in Chechnya and said that the creation of an Islamic court system in the southern Muslim republic was unlawful.

94.   Public executions and floggings, a rare happening in recent years, have sharply increased in the past few weeks.

95.   Public executions are becoming more common in eastern and southern Afghanistan, where leaders of the rebel Taliban militia have imposed strict Islamic law.

96.   Public executions are becoming increasingly common in eastern and southern Afghanistan, where leaders from the rebel Taliban militia have imposed strict Islamic laws.

97.   Relations have been strained further over the public executions in Chechnya earlier this month of a man and woman convicted of involvement in a murder by an Islamic court.

98.   Respected in Kandahar and other parts of southern Afghanistan for imposing peace in lawless regions, the Taliban were also feared because of their penchant for public executions.

99.   Russia has condemned the Islamic court system as unlawful and called on a halt to public executions.

100.   Saeed Naqibullah was found guilty of robbing and killing Abdul Hai, said Taliban officials at the public execution.