21.   When a prisoner is executed by lethal injection, prison officials often follow the same routine.

22.   Prisoners are executed in Belarus, like most former Soviet republics, with a shot to the head.

23.   Police also said rebels killed four residents, including the young daughter of the police commander, and stormed into the town jail, executing three prisoners.

24.   A Muslim witness testified Tuesday at the Yugoslav tribunal that he saw the war crimes defendant Dusan Tadic greeting a camp guard who had just executed a prisoner.

25.   A U.N. envoy arrived Saturday to assess human rights in Iran, where the international body says too many prisoners are executed or mistreated in detention.

26.   A U.N. envoy arrived Saturday to assess human rights in Iran, where the international body says too many prisoners are executed or mistreated.

27.   Amnesty International released a report Thursday saying Oklahoma executes prisoners at a higher rate per capita than any other state and most nations including China and Iran.

28.   Astiz admitted in the interview that political prisoners were summarily executed during the Dirty War.

29.   But officials say no Western prisoners have been executed in Thailand in recent decades, and the sentence is rarely imposed against Thais.

30.   But separatist leaders say they will execute the prisoners if Moscow carries out its threat.