At 6-foot-2, he has long legs and enough flexibility to almost execute a complete split, allowing him to stretch across the 6-foot-wide goal mouth.
Defendants who can afford a good lawyer are almost never executed.
And this week's murderous attacks, almost certainly executed by al-Qaeda's Iraqi offshoot with the aim of disrupting the summit, may yet succeed in their goal.
Soon he's playing another and it's almost identical, executed with an economy of movement in both his feet and perfectly still head.
Last month, the pro-death-penalty Republican governor of Illinois, George Ryan, called for a moratorium on the death penalty after concluding that 13 innocent people had almost been executed, in some cases because of dismal defenses mounted by incompetent, poorly paid lawyers.
Not for nothing, these were almost entirely executed in red, white, and black.
Carting fresh corpses from morgue-to-mortuary-to-funeral-to-graveyard, along imperfect roads, in imperfect motor vehicles driven by imperfect human beings is logistically tricky, yet somehow these operations are almost always executed with precision.
It was this little intellectual sleight of hand that really opened my eyes, as I realized Tolle's book is an almost flawlessly executed advertising campaign: it creates a need for itself and offers itself as a solution to that need.
In the first year [after the attack] about 350 people were executed, almost a person per day, so the rate was extraordinary and unrelenting.
Second only to China as the nation that kills the most of its citizens, Iran is said to have executed almost 700 people so far this year almost three times the figure acknowledged by the authorities.
