1.   Another waters down the present rule against executing people who are so mentally ill that they cannot understand the proceedings against them.

2.   A Fulton County Superior Court judge today banned the state from executing people in the electric chair until another court can decide whether electrocution is unconstitutional.

3.   By the end of the year Texas will likely have set a record for executing people.

4.   Clements, an outspoken supporter of capital punishment, said opponents once made broad calls for abolition by arguing that executing people was immoral.

5.   First and foremost, we should stop executing people in the dead of night in discreet little prison rooms that hold but a handful of witnesses.

6.   Gov. Rick Perry was accused Thursday of ducking the question of the morality of executing people with mental retardation by saying that Texas does not do so.

7.   It compounds the crime by executing people when details and politics are in doubt.

8.   The whole world knows that Texas has a fetish for executing people.

9.   An ethnic Albanian rebel group that calls itself the Albanian National Army claimed authorities staged the incident, executing seven people previously arrested while traveling through the country.

10.   The Manila government will ask Muslim rebels to stop executing people convicted by Islamic courts as a condition for continuing peace talks, the Philippine defense secretary said Monday.