11.   Together, the two groups will constitute the largest crowd to witness an execution since the heyday of public hangings early in the last century.

12.   What happened was in league with a public hanging.

13.   When a group of men tried to flee the scene of a public hanging, they were beaten and forced to watch.

14.   A public hanging in Kentucky.

15.   Executions in Ethiopia are either by an electric chair or public hanging, especially when authorities want to send a public warning.

16.   The public hanging is the second this week.

17.   The Salvadoran jurist voiced particular concern at the incidence of whippings and amputations and the increase in the number of public hangings and deaths by stoning.

18.   There were public cries for reinstating public hangings after a six-year-old girl was abducted, sexually assaulted and slaughtered in April.

19.   Zia resurrected public hangings, stoning to death and public beatings, all in keeping with Islamic dictates.

20.   Herewith chronological details of events surrounding the executions and public hanging of Soviet-backed former Afghan president Najibullah on Friday according to a UN account.