Only Missouri bucked the trend – it lethally injected 10 prisoners compared with just two the previous year, as it forged ahead with an aggressive new drive to carry out executions at a rate of almost one a month.
As things stand, South Sudan may face a long civil war.What began as a political power struggle within the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the ruling party, soon took on a lethally ethnic character, pitting the country's two largest communities against each other: Mr Kiir's Dinka, the largest of South Sudan's tribes, versus Mr Machar's Nuer.
But his shipmates brought home the custom of sucking in the smoke, and the taste spread so rapidly that in 1604 King James I of England was prompted to issue a denunciation of the "manifold abuses of this vile custome".Vile indeed, but habit-forming and therefore lethally dangerous: it cuts short the lives of between a third and half of its practitioners.
"Thanks to political interference, lethally combined with the bullish optimism of generals who saw only opportunities, the Gallipoli campaign was launched into a void that guaranteed failure".
Laden with sophisticated sensors and carrying Hellfire missiles and laser-guided bombs, they patrol the skies above Afghanistan, launch lethally accurate strikes against terrorists in the tribal areas of Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia and have helped NATO turn the tide against Muammar Qaddafi's forces in Libya.
This well-tended campus is home to seven of the state's 28 prisons, including both Broad River, where inmates sentenced to die are lethally injected or electrocuted, and Campbell, which houses prisoners on work-release, who spend their days at fast-food restaurants or laundries and return to their "dorms" to sleep.Part of their earnings goes to repay the cost of jailing them.
For the time being, the bombs whether supplied by Iran or others—seem to be going off as often and as lethally as ever.
But shells have already begun falling in the centre of Donetsk: the potential for things to go lethally wrong is great.The biggest question is just how far Mr Putin will go to support the militants.
The outlaw pirates of the early 18th century, by contrast, were single-minded and lethally effective.
After five more opposition members had been killed by government supporters, the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, said his party would look for ways to defend itself.African leaders met in Nigeria to discuss ways of fighting malaria, which is spreading lethally across the continent.
Given that a compromised intelligence operation is a lethally dangerous one, shutters slammed down all over the world including, probably, on some operations and agents whose identities were still secure.
