31.   The law also for the first time requires the Court of Criminal Appeals to appoint and pay lawyers to represent condemned prisoners in their appeals.

32.   The vice president, who backs the death penalty, was asked whether he would support it if the condemned prisoner happened to be pregnant.

33.   Visitors to the cinder block building known as the death house, where condemned prisoners spend their last two weeks, are frisked and pass through two metal detectors.

34.   Clinton said death penalty supporters -- including himself -- are obligated to make sure there is no question of guilt for condemned prisoners.

35.   Condemned prisoners and their family members said they prefer lethal injection as a method of execution, Xinhua quoted Liu saying.

36.   Condemned prisoners in Saudi Arabia usually are beheaded in public.

37.   Condemned prisoners are usually beheaded in public in Saudi Arabia.

38.   From death squads executing street children in Brazil to alleged use of condemned prisoners as organ donors in China, a U.N. report published Friday makes chilling reading.

39.   In normal circumstances, Dieter noted, most condemned prisoners never are put to death.

40.   It is the same drug used to kill some condemned prisoners.