He was sentenced to death under the last remaining provision of the state's previous capital punishment law, a provision mandating the execution of an inmate who committed murder while serving a life sentence.
They were the first victims of the secret Commando Order, which mandated the execution of all captured Commandos.
Arabic was mandated the official language, however.
Others don't legally mandate the coverage.
The underlying task has remained unchanged throughout history, but over the years the Court has mandated that executions be conducted with some finesse.
While health care reform has been mandated at the national level, the execution of that reform will be realized at the state level.
State Senator Ginny Brown-Waite, who witnessed a particularly gruesome electrocution in 1999, said that the prisoner's nosebleed formed the sign of a cross on his shirt, which she suggested might be a sign from God that the execution was divinely mandated.
It is true that the criminal codes in most Muslim countries do not mandate execution for apostasy (although a law doing exactly that is pending before Iran's Parliament and in two Malaysian states).
That year the law changed, mandating executions would take place privately and inside the prison.
