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The exact number of executions is a state secret.

Mr. Menda scoffs at the idea that withholding notification of prisoners' executions is a gesture of kindness.

Although the exact number of annual executions is a state secret, China remains by far the leading executioner in the world, according to Amnesty International and other campaign groups.

Though the motives for most of the killings remain unclear, officials fear that the wave of executions is a continuation of the sectarian reprisals that followed the destruction of the Samarra shrine last month.

Hydromorphone, the second drug in the Wood and McGuire executions, is a painkiller that changes the way the brain and nervous system respond to pain, and at high doses can stop the heart and respiratory system.

In a complaint lodged on Thursday with the circuit court of Cole County, covering the state capital Jefferson City, the news outlets argue that the refusal of the prison service to disclose the type, quality and source of the drugs it uses in executions is a violation of the first amendment right to public access to government practices.

Federal executions are a rarity.

UNTIL they were abolished in 1868, public executions were a common entertainment in Britain.

Executions are a rarity in Arkansas, trailing more active death-penalty states including Texas, Florida and Oklahoma.

Presiding over executions was a responsibility she accepted with resignation and, possibly, abhorrence.

The executions are a reminder of the power the regime is prepared to wield against its enemies.