The subsequent trial and execution of the prisoners are acted out in a mock fashion.
The executions of the prisoners, who were pulled from a hospital in the Croatian town of Vukovar, were considered among the most notorious events in the war.
Mr. Engel was convicted of ordering the execution of the Italian prisoners, who were chained together and shot one after another.
The state had argued, and a federal district court agreed, that in order to convince the courts to impose a stay of execution, the prisoner had to be able to offer a feasible alternative method of execution than the one to which he was objecting.
When I spoke to him in July, Human Rights Watch was about to release several reports on crimes committed by the Iraqi government: the execution of Sunni prisoners, the murder of Sunni men by government-supported Shiite militias, the killing of civilians by barrel-bomb attacks conducted by the Iraqi Air Force.
Although some antigovernment fighters in Aleppo have participated in abuses and battlefield excesses — including the summary execution of prisoners — the perpetrators have often not been identified and the crimes have not been directly linked to Mr. Saleh or his immediate followers, a researcher with Human Rights Watch said.
Only in one state, Connecticut, is the execution of a prisoner outlawed on the grounds that they were mentally ill at the time the crime was committed.
When the officials in charge of the execution checked the prisoner at 3.02pm – an hour and 10 minutes after the procedure began – he was confirmed still to be alive.
During the Northern Alliance attack here, the execution of one prisoner was witnessed by journalists, and the bodies of three men shot in the head were also discovered.
