41.   The Taliban held public executions between the goal posts.

42.   The same argument has been made recently by capital punishment opponents who advocate public executions to demonstrate the brutality of state-sanctioned killing.

43.   The Tutsi-led government has responded by holding public executions of former Hutu officials convicted of taking part in the genocide.

44.   Then, as now, there were those who argued that a public execution was a vivid demonstration of the price paid for the most odious crimes against humanity.

45.   There have also been public executions of women for what the Taliban deem as graver sins, such as adultery.

46.   They hold public executions in stadiums full of cheering people.

47.   This is thought to be the vanquished ruler being led to public execution.

48.   US intelligence analysts speak of public executions in recent months as the government apparently attempts to underline the cost of dissent.

49.   Was it less barbaric than public executions?

50.   Watching him on the sideline is like viewing a public execution.