41.   In July, three murder convicts were executed at prisons in Tokyo and Fukuoka, the first executions since conservative Prime Minister Hashimoto took office in January.

42.   A convicted murderer was hanged on Friday, in the first execution this year in Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry said.

43.   A Saudi convicted of murder was beheaded in Riyadh in the first public execution staged in the Gulf kingdom for five months, the Saudi press reported Saturday.

44.   By quietly carrying out its first execution in more than eight years, Thailand has rejoined the ranks of nations which use capital punishment.

45.   They were the first executions in Jordan this year.

46.   Two men convicted of the gruesome murder of four members of a family were hanged in Tehran on Wednesday in the first public execution in the capital for years.

47.   On Thursday authorities put three drug traffickers to death by firing squad in the first executions of the year.

48.   Thailand carried out its first executions of the year Wednesday, with two convicted murderers and three drug traffickers going before the firing squad.

49.   The first execution has been set for August.

50.   The first execution -- by lethal injection -- is expected to be carried out here in July or August, Justice Secretary Teofisto Guingona said this week.