Ali al-Dabbagh, the government's spokesman, said that Mr. Majid's execution had "happened without any violations, shouting or cries of joy," unlike that of Mr. Hussein.
But one official said executions might have happened in revenge.
Khan, who is chairman of a group of affected parents, said he would have preferred the executions to have happened in public.
Like any weapon, incapacitating agents could be abused, perhaps disseminated to quell a peaceful political protest or used to disable people for summary execution, as may have happened in Moscow.
But it would be a mistake to assume that had religion not been there to justify the execution, it wouldn't have happened.
What should have happened in the execution of Clayton D. Lockett.
Maybe, though similar incidents have happened in real life (bungled executions; undercover policemen starting families).
Ghaemi said Ali-Zamani's arrest may have happened before the election, raising the possibility his execution verdict had been passed to deter further protests.
Arrest, trial, conviction (by a two-thirds vote), and execution could all take place in secret; in theory, this may already have happened.
This will take courage, but it is vital that they do so: We cannot rely much longer on a progressive Court of Appeals to intercede and prevent executions, as has happened since 1995, when the death penalty was reinstituted in New York.
A few interconnected trends have converged to move shopper marketing budgets from majority in-store static placements to majority digital executions, and this has happened in relatively short order.
