1.   Although the first execution could be months or even years away, correction officials said they wanted to be prepared in case inmates should forgo appeals.

2.   ATLANTA - As Georgia prepared today for its first execution in almost three years, legal wrangling continued over whether the electrocution will be videotaped.

3.   A few weeks before the first executions, the warden, R.F. Coleman, who would have been the executioner, abruptly quit.

4.   A Palestinian firing squad carried out the first executions under Palestinian self-rule Sunday, shooting two brothers convicted of killing two brothers from another family three days ago.

5.   A U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday clears the way for what could be the first execution of a death row inmate in Tennessee in nearly four decades.

6.   It would be the first execution of a federal prisoner in nearly four decades.

7.   It would be the first federal execution since John F. Kennedy was president.

8.   Since Wilson took office four years ago, two men have been executed in California, the first executions in the state in more than two decades.

9.   Tens of thousands of Rwandans who had gathered to watch the first executions of people convicted of genocide pressed forward.

10.   The death by lethal injection of rapist-killer Tommy Thompson on Tuesday was the first execution in more than two years.