Yet India (like much of South Asia) has largely given up executing people, even as some 400 convicts languish on death row.Indian law permits executions only in the "rarest of rare" cases, such as Mr Kasab's.
"In addition, the executing officer or a person assisting is empowered to leave a warrant premise temporarily and subsequently re-enter to continue the execution of the warrant in certain instances where, for example, the occupier returns home and the covert nature of the warrant is at risk.
A prisoner in Georgia who has been diagnosed as intellectually disabled by all medical experts who have examined him will be put to death on Monday unless the US supreme court acts to enforce its own constitutional ban on executing "mentally retarded" individuals.
In the warped thinking of the profoundly Catholic yet murderous generals who ruled Argentina then, it would have been unchristian to kill an innocent, unborn child by executing the expectant mother.
At his subsequent trial for threatening language and behaviour, he attacked the prosecution counsel after being found guilty, leaping over a bench and executing a flying kick of his own.
Apart organising and executing an expedition and committing to cycling 10,000 miles through the most challenging terrain on earth, I've also encountered personal tragedy.
Its first hurdle is executing a grand political mea culpa, convincing voters that - despite its own excoriating assessments - they were in fact right about Rudd and Labor itself was wrong.
It is able to record the revenues in Ireland because the UK company is deemed to drum up new business, with sales staff in Dublin executing all deals.
He said: "Georgia should not violate its own prohibition against executing individuals with seriously diminished capacity".
Even Cook, who with his record should have the confidence to speak and be damned, has had the look of a man being held hostage against his will and forced by hidden snipers to sit in front of a board covered in adverts and talk about hitting good areas and executing skill-sets and this not being the moment to discuss matters currently under wide-ranging review.
Bonucci did not seem quite so tough when executing one of the most preposterous tumbles you will ever see during his team's game at Palermo.
