1.   The executions were carried out under Sharia law, the official said.

2.   Appeals are processed briskly and executions are normally carried out within an hour after a sentence is confirmed.

3.   Before that, executions were carried out by hanging.

4.   After that, prison officials delayed strapping the condemned to the gurney until it was clear an execution would be carried out.

5.   Alcatraz was a federal prison, and no executions were carried out there.

6.   But that is no excuse to break his pledge to the Senate or to carry out executions in the face of what continues to be powerful evidence of discrimination.

7.   Convictions are reviewed by the Supreme Court and must be ratified by Parliament before an execution is carried out.

8.   Executions are carried out in the same prison wing as the infirmary at Potosi.

9.   Federal officials have said his execution could be carried out, barring a stay from the president, sometime in May.

10.   For his own conscience, Wilson said, he vowed if an execution he called for was ever carried out, he would be there.