For the journey to commercialization, the operating model used to manage this highly accelerated program led to a framework that ensured "right the first time" execution, robust process characterization, and proactive process monitoring.
This is the first time since executions resumed in 1977 that the number of executions has fallen in consecutive years.
This is the first time an execution by lethal injection in the United States has failed and then been rescheduled, according to Richard C. Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, in Washington.
On Monday, for the first time since the execution of Mr.Afzal, when the Kashmir authorities imposed a curfew in the Kashmir Valley, the streets of Srinagar were crowded with people and vehicles as most shops opened for business.
Kai Diethelm [31] parallelized the fractional Adams-Bashforth-Moulton algorithm for the first time and the execution time of the algorithm was efficiently reduced.
A new four-strand rope was used for the first time at the execution, and proved to be a failure; Ross slowly strangled for more than forty minutes before his death.
From the Sunday paper, Bob went to the daily as managing editor (1959-61), and when sacked as editor for the second time – both executions were conducted by Max Aitken, Beaverbrook's son, who didn't like Bob – he was rescued by Hugh Cudlipp of the Mirror Group.
(This is not the first time this year that an execution has been drawn out and, for want of a better word, gruesome).
But this was also my first time witnessing a state execution, so I made sure the state prison staff here had a notepad ready, and I asked my colleagues what it was supposed to be like.
