11.   The first executions made front-page headlines across Texas.

12.   The first such execution is expected in January.

13.   The first execution under the law is not expected for years, after those who have been condemned exhaust their appeals.

14.   The first executions by the Palestinian Authority were hardly a paragon of justice.

15.   The first execution is years away, as all the cases are under appeal.

16.   These are the first executions in the former British colony in five years.

17.   President Fidel Ramos on Wednesday rejected calls by Filipino Catholic bishops to stop the first executions under a recent law that allows capital punishment.

18.   Arafat government carries out first executions.

19.   Arafat complied and ordered the defendants be sent before a firing squad in the first execution in the autonomous areas.

20.   Earlier this month, Trinidad hanged nine men, its first executions in five years.