The preceding cases are examples of execution after formal court martial, and do not, therefore, record deaths as occurring during battle or during informal executions or massacres.
They get the efficiency of the formal with the creativity of the informal; the focused execution with the responsiveness to new opportunities; the accountability with the emotional commitment.
Twenty of the thirty-one states with the death penalty on the books now have a formal or informal moratorium on executions, in almost all cases because they have been unable to obtain approved drugs to use in lethal injections.
In addition, officials in at least four states — Virginia, Texas, Florida and Oklahoma — moved on Wednesday to begin setting new execution dates after the informal moratorium of the last seven months.
One senior American official in Baghdad characterized the Iraqi requests as "informal," and cited President Talabani's objections to the execution.
Solomon Graves, a spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Corrections, told Arkansas Matters that they are taking an "informal approach" to find enough witnesses for the eight scheduled executions but were confident they'd find them by the execution dates.
Since the Supreme Court accepted the new lethal-injection case last month, even the most pro-execution states seem to have begun an informal death-penalty moratorium.
Back in the UK, both remainers and leavers had pronounced her Chequers' proposals to be dead in the water, but the prime minister had still travelled to the informal EU summit in Salzburg hoping for a stay of execution.
Events elsewhere in the country further delayed the execution and, following an intercession to Thomas Cromwell (whose own informal contacts had cast doubt on the reliability of Dutton's reports), the abbot and canons were discharged and awarded pensions.
This informal moratorium came to an end in January, when Lebanon held its first executions since 1998, two by firing squad and one by hanging.
Execution-watchers are now nervously eyeing Pakistan, which in March ended an informal moratorium on the death penalty (having lifted it last year for terrorism offences).
