11.   Human rights groups and relatives of the victims, however, have always maintained that the executions were ordered, approved and directed by the military authorities.

12.   In addition to the drug-related charges against him, Villarreal-Solis is accused of ordering the execution of three men in San Antonio.

13.   In deciding that only juries, not judges, can order executions, the court made an upset-the-applecart ruling against states that it usually avoids.

14.   Military law allows the death penalty of terrorists and in several cases military judges have ordered executions.

15.   Others speculate that Josef Stalin had ordered his execution.

16.   Pol Pot himself has ordered executions of dozens of top figures who fell out of favor in the past three decades.

17.   Sankoh kept discipline by ordering the execution of any commanders who challenged him.

18.   Someone else probably decided to order the execution of all the men of fighting age.

19.   The Hague investigation of the Srebrenica massacres, in addition to building a case against Mladic and Karadzic, may seek to bring indictments against commanders who ordered executions.

20.   The opposition claims that Al-Majid ordered the executions of several officers in the south immediately after he took control.