Well, if you recall all the tortures that took place at the Chinese courts, all those slow-cutting executions in past dynasties, he certainly had plenty of predecessors!
Finally, to demonstrate transparency, transplant registries should be made accessible for the public and the numbers of transplantations and executions, including past historical numbers, must be published.
Certainly this historic explanation maps relatively neatly onto the geographic distribution of states with the greatest proclivity to execute: two thirds of executions over the past generation have taken place in just five southern states, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia.
Our system differs from Bluemix in its support for expressing applications as models (CloudML, CAMEL), its use of two information repositories, the PaaSage repository of models and execution histories and Chef supermarket, and the use of analytics over past executions to enable users to reason about application deployments.
In it, we have defined a way to reduce the complexity of a planning problem (for a specific composition) by minimizing the search space according to the specific execution context, and reusing solutions (i.e., selected fragments) by learning from past executions.
Fewer than thirty countries have carried out executions in the past few years: among them China, Japan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalia, and the United States.
Sant'Egidio has worked with Reprieve, a British organization, to block the sale of sedatives crucial in past executions.
It has been associated with several gruesomely botched executions in the past few years including that of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma in which he writhed and groaned on the gurney for 43 minutes.
