1.   Also unclear is whether execution by lethal injection will have any effect on the death penalty as a crime deterrent.

2.   Such mass executions do not have to be swallowed whole by a society that has lost its spirit of self-defense.

3.   The effect a televised execution would have on viewers is a big unknown in the equation.

4.   Thus, his execution will have to be postponed, officials said.

5.   Yet the executions had virtually unanimous support in the Gaza Strip.

6.   But there have no executions for drug traffickers since the law was passed.

7.   Execution has to start.

8.   In addition, one criminal facing execution had his sentence commuted to life in prison.

9.   The author goes on to write that execution would have to wait until a shipment of silent pistols had been delivered.