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The seemingly opposite trends -- a 25-year record high of executions, and an ever-shrinking number of countries that perform them -- hinge on just a few countries that carry out executions at a disproportionately high rate, according to Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
Ms. Pillay said Iraq's judicial system was "too seriously flawed to warrant even a limited application of the death penalty, let alone dozens of executions at a time".
Indeed, the huge, walking-stick-wielding Sam Houston has become a popular attraction in Huntsville, which had previously been associated mainly with executions at a nearby state prison.
Only Missouri bucked the trend – it lethally injected 10 prisoners compared with just two the previous year, as it forged ahead with an aggressive new drive to carry out executions at a rate of almost one a month.
Experts expect the court to eventually rule on whether the Constitution allows executions at a time of increasing recognition of the enormous financial costs of the death penalty, high-profile exonerations and research showing persistent racial bias in capital cases.
They look at the experiences of states or counties, gauging whether executions at a given time seemed to affect the murder rate that year, the year after or at some other later time.
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For example, it held show trials and executions at an ancient amphitheater, incorporating the site into its court system.
The country was a grim and medieval place — I witnessed a public execution at a Kabul stadium.
Mr. Cruz awaits execution at a time when there is growing opposition across the country to the execution of the mentally retarded.
Meanwhile, other local newspaper reports noted that an alternative theory suggested they were not vampires, but victims of an execution at a known nearby gallows.
Somehow, we seem to have lost the capacity for long-range planning and execution — at a time when, arguably, foresight and patience are more essential than ever before.
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