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It was a long-stranded wig and he put it on, the baldish man undergoing a bizarre transformation as he confronted her, raised the gun and opened fire, a point-blank, seven-shot execution, officials said.

BAGHDAD — Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, who is known as Chemical Ali, has been taken to an American military hospital after suffering a heart attack while in custody awaiting execution, officials said.

A DNA test has failed to exonerate a Texas inmate whose case took on political significance when Gov. George W. Bush granted him a stay of execution, officials knowledgeable about the results say.

In the attacks in Bali, the Indonesian government has not given the F.B.I. as much direct access as it would like to those under arrest, several of whom have been convicted and are facing execution, officials said.

If a body turned up bearing signs of torture or execution, officials said, even honest detectives moved on to the next case on the presumption that this one could not be solved.

Best of all, the executioner seeking to buy rope for a hanging does not have to engage in the sort of felonious conduct in which a recently filed lawsuit suggests Texas execution officials were forced to engage in order to obtain a death dealing drug.

The inmate is handcuffed and blindfolded before entering the execution room, officials said.

Attorney General John Ashcroft is said to be determined to go forward with the Garza execution, government officials said.

At his scheduled execution, prison officials stuck him repeatedly with a needle for nearly two hours in a failed effort to find a usable vein.

Despite speculation about possible reprisals after the execution, federal officials say they have received no information that an attack of any sort is imminent.

On the day of Mr. Broom's scheduled execution, state officials asked a doctor to help find a usable vein, even though that doctor had not received any of the training required to participate in an execution, the filings said.