1.   Anti-death penalty activists from the Dayton area plan to travel to Lucasville on Friday to protest the execution.

2.   A handful of Massachusetts residents are planning to travel to Terre Haute to protest the execution.

3.   He did so to protest the execution of a minority rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa.

4.   Lance Lindsey, executive director of Death Penalty Focus, said his organization would continue protesting executions until they ended.

5.   Pledging a peaceful demonstration, opponents of the death penalty began gathering Sunday to protest the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

6.   A handful of religious leaders are protesting the execution, but they are the minority in a city known as the buckle of the Bible Belt.

7.   A senior Swedish official Wednesday blasted Western nations for being soft on Nigeria and proposed an oil boycott to protest its execution of nine leading dissidents.

8.   Canada is reviewing its relations with Vietnam to protest the execution this week of a Canadian woman convicted of heroin smuggling, Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy said Thursday.

9.   Canada has recalled its top diplomat to Nigeria to protest the execution of nine political activists, including author Ken Saro-Wiwa.

10.   Canada suspended government contacts with Vietnam on Monday and put off annual meetings on development aid to protest the execution of a Canadian woman convicted of drug smuggling.