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Some states have had to delay executions because of shortages.

Several states have delayed executions because of its unavailability.

Several cities began experimenting with the method in 1997, particularly Kunming, which has a high rate of executions because of chronic heroin trafficking.

Illinois is the only other state with a death penalty that has put a moratorium on executions because of questions about how fairly it is applied.

For years hence there were no executions because of legal challenges and the opposition of two governors, Hugh L. Carey and Mario M. Cuomo.

Some studies suggest that prisoners are sometimes inadequately sedated, and perhaps die in silent agony from asphyxiation.Since last year, ten states have halted executions because of fears that lethal injection may be cruel, and therefore unconstitutional.

A day before a North Carolina man was scheduled to be executed for a 1987 stabbing, the State Supreme Court postponed the execution because of concerns that Gov. Mike Easley, the former attorney general, might have a conflict of interest in the case.

— NEARLY 50 years after the end of Jim Crow, African-Americans are still facing execution because of their race.

They argue that the condemned prisoner could suffer during the execution because of improper administration of the chemicals.

"We therefore call upon the Algerian regime to condemn him to public execution, because of his war against God, his Prophet, his Book, Muslims and their country".

"During the 1979 revolution against the Shah, there were crowds calling for my father's execution because of his satirical writings," says Shappi.