81.   Throughout Russia, the courts also hand down death sentences, and the condemned are executed with a shot to the head.

82.   Xinhua said the railway court also handed down suspended sentences of two and three years to two other railway workers held indirectly responsible for the crash.

83.   While the court handed a clear victory to writers, questions remain about how the ruling will be implemented.

84.   In Egypt and Kuwait special courts also handed down death sentences and executions were carried out.

85.   In January, a court handed life sentences to three other men for their role in the attack.

86.   In August a lower court had handed down sentences ranging from a suspended jail sentence to three years imprisonment.

87.   A Dutch court on Wednesday handed down a homicide conviction against a doctor who gave a handicapped baby a lethal injection, but it declined to sentence the physician.

88.   A month before their acquittal, the same court had handed down stiff prison sentences against eight former deputies of Kurdish origin who faced similar charges.

89.   A Pakistani court handed down death sentences Thursday against two Christians, one of them a teenager, for blaspheming the Moslem prophet Mohammed, court officials said.

90.   A Pakistani court has handed down the first death penalty in the country for drug trafficking charges, a local newspaper reported Thursday.