11.   A human rights group said Thursday that Mozambican police are summarily executing suspected criminals, in some cases shooting suspects after they have been handcuffed.

12.   Both U.S. and South Korean officials say the North has been executing more criminals in public as an apparent warning to potential dissidents.

13.   Chechnya defies Russia, executes two criminals.

14.   China executes more criminals than any other country by far.

15.   Criminals are normally executed with a single bullet fired to the back of the head.

16.   Criminals generally are executed in China with a bullet at the back of the head immediately after sentencing.

17.   Earlier this month, the Mozambican Human Rights League said that Mozambican police were summarily executing suspected criminals, in some cases shooting suspects after they have been handcuffed.

18.   In some isolated communities, residents take justice into their own hands, executing criminals by hanging them from the bough of a tree.

19.   It did not say how the sentences were carried out, but China usually executes criminals with gunshots to the head.

20.   Mozambican police are summarily executing accused criminals, in some cases shooting suspects after they have been handcuffed, a human rights group said Thursday.