11.   A later sequence documents a public execution.

12.   After European officials criticized the public executions by firing squad of two collaborators in January, Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat promised to hold no more executions.

13.   But even this process could be the first step toward returning to public executions, said Paul Leighton, a criminology professor at Eastern Michigan University.

14.   But in recent years, as the Taliban enforced its severe brand of Islamic law with public executions or dismemberment for criminals, crime declined.

15.   But the event already has the grisly carnival atmosphere of a public execution.

16.   But they could not recall an incident anywhere in the region of a mass public execution by burning.

17.   Community leaders in Texas had long been ambivalent about public execution.

18.   Daytime public executions also would go a long way toward helping us attain the most important aim of modern state-sanctioned killing.

19.   Frustrated by the continued heavy casualties, General Gennady Troshev, commander of Russian troops in Chechnya, this month called for public execution of rebels.

20.   He cited assassinations of Iranian dissidents abroad and public executions and stonings.