31.   Mutagwera said the government hoped to carry out the first executions later this month but that no date had yet been set.

32.   Rwanda to carry out first executions for crime of genocide.

33.   Supreme Court removes last major obstacle to first execution.

34.   The execution of Eduardo Agbayani stirred little of the nationwide debate that accompanied the first execution in February.

35.   They were the first executions in Japan this year.

36.   Those were the first executions for three years.

37.   They would be the first executions in nearly five years in the Caribbean country.

38.   This was the first execution this year.

39.   Two Iranian men were hanged in Kuwait on Sunday, the first executions ever for drug smuggling in this small Gulf state, a Kuwaiti official said.

40.   Zimbabwe hanged a condemned murderer Tuesday, defying protests from human-rights groups following the first execution in seven years last December.