21.   In Virginia, Thomas W. Akers was the first inmate this year to be executed in his state.

22.   McVeigh would be the first inmate executed by the federal government in almost four decades.

23.   The British government freed six convicted IRA and pro-British militants Friday, the first paramilitary inmates to win parole under terms of the Northern Ireland peace accord.

24.   The first inmates at Auschwitz were Poles who were arrested for resisting German occupation.