Methods of execution include beheading, hanging, lethal injection and shooting.
And it gives prison personnel a "systematic countdown to execution," including several checklists.
Doctors helped fashion and promote earlier modes of execution, including the guillotine and the electric chair.
Methods of execution included beheading, stoning, electrocution, hanging, firing squads and lethal injection.
Sixteen prisoners await execution, including Hani Abu Aliyan, 28, who was convicted of two killings, including sexually assaulting and bludgeoning to death a boy when Mr. Abu Aliyan was 14.
According to Iraqi prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon there were 14 Iraqi officials present at the execution, including himself and another prosecutor, as well as three hangmen.
More than a few grown men cried at the execution, including Lafayette, who called Hamilton's widely published letter "a masterpiece of literary talents and amiable sensibility".
By about 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Larry Fitzgerald, a prison spokesman whose job requires him to witness every execution, had prepared the press packets on Mr. Hittle's execution, including an hour-by-hour report on his final three days.
Ten others who had also faced execution – including three Indonesians, and foreign nationals from countries including Pakistan and India – were not killed, but officials said they would be put to death at a later date.
Mr. Duty, 58, executed for strangling his cellmate nearly a decade ago, was believed to be the first person in the United States whose execution included the use of the drug, pentobarbital.
