When Saudi Arabia killed 47 people mainly alleged terrorists in a mass execution on January 2, it was naturally condemned by observers worldwide as inhumane and barbaric.
It would put the existing architecture into a kind of zero-price "sleeping beauty style" hibernation, with the independent Climate Change Authority getting a last-minute stay of execution so it can advise on when it should be re-awoken.
On the upside, though, to paraphrase Victor Moore's classic line on execution: "If it was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me".
For example, some jobs put such a premium on execution that it's virtually impossible to demonstrate your strategic ability.
I think it's focused on execution, as it should be.
Obama himself signed off on one execution knowing it would also kill innocent family members.
"The very fact that the United States will have designated these defendants for execution," it goes on, "will guarantee that their pictures will be held aloft over crowds of protesters.
It is certainly okay with Amazon Web Services, which makes money on each execution, whether it finished or not.
Under circumstances unique in judicial history, the relator asks this Court to stay his execution on the ground that it will violate the due process of law guaranteed to him by the Constitution of the United States.
In the same essay, she also wrote that despite the end of the Ceaucescu regime, following his execution on Christmas day, 1989, it remains largely intact, with agents still operating at home and abroad, mainly under the guise of the post-communist secret services, the SRI, or Romanian Information Service.
Arthur's attorneys have challenged the constitutionality of Alabama's lethal injection method of execution on the grounds that it is cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
