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The following year, China carried out its first executions of child traffickers.

Indonesia has carried out its first executions in more than a year despite a string of legal appeals, diplomatic pressure and international condemnation.

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.

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Human rights campaigners have called on the Indian government not to proceed with its first executions in seven years after the President refused to commute the sentences of two men on death row.

A federal appeals court today lifted a stay of execution for a child killer in Tennessee, making it possible that the state could carry out its first execution in 40 years early Thursday.

Earlier this month the region saw its first execution under sharia in recent times.

Illinois recently suspended its death penalty, and Tennessee is preparing for its first execution in 40 years.

But as the criminal trial began last week in the 1999 slaying of the death row inmate, Robert (Mudman) Simon, who was killed by his neighbor on death row, there is a growing sense that New Jersey is moving inexorably toward its first execution since 1963.

India carried out its first execution since 2004, of the only surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attack.

Indonesia - where a British woman, Lindsay Sandiford, is facing a death sentence for drug trafficking - has also just carried out its first execution in more than four years.