1.   Early in the month, Texas matched its own record for putting convicts to death, then topped it with four more executions.

2.   He reintroduced another old prison task, and put convicts to work breaking rocks.

3.   Texas has been putting convicts in tents, just not the kinds of cons needing maximum security.

4.   What were they going to do, put the convicts on the honor system?

5.   Convicts are normally put to death by a single bullet fired into the back of the head.

6.   A building where convicts would be put to death by lethal injection is being built at the national penitentiary in suburban Manila.

7.   A cheaper building where the convicts will be put to death by lethal injection is now under construction at the national penitentiary in the Manila suburb of Muntinlupa.