31.   All Japanese executions are carried out by hanging.

32.   All three executions were carried out on Tuesday, the report said, without providing details.

33.   All three executions were carried out by sword, as is usually the case in Saudi Arabia.

34.   As word spread that the execution had been carried out, they remained somber.

35.   Assistant Prisons Commission Mervyn Harris refused to tell The Associated Press on Friday how many prisoners remained on death row and when the last executions were carried out.

36.   But because of opposition, no executions were carried out until last year.

37.   But executions are usually carried out with a gunshot to the head shortly after sentencing.

38.   But no execution has been carried out.

39.   But so far the country has only enacted a moratorium that prevents courts from carrying out executions, while death sentences continue to be handed down.

40.   But the two countries have refrained from carrying out executions in recent years.