And, seeking traces of a more recent but no less shrouded era, women whose loved ones were executed and supposedly buried in the desert during Pinochet's murderous reign comb the pitiless expanse of sand and rock for human remains.
During her tenure, Kaye repeatedly voted to strike down the state's death-penalty laws — no one was executed on her watch — and she filed a passionate dissenting opinion in 2006, when a bare majority of her seven colleagues voted to refuse to recognize the right of gay people to marry.
Eight years later, one was executed in the electric chair.
One was executed and the other was serving a fifteen-year sentence.
Their task is to assure that no one is executed without adequate representation to bring appeals.
All but one was executed, in the basement killing room of the Lubyanka prison in Moscow.
"One was executed, one died in a war, one is in prison, and one is a refugee in Germany".
Camus's emperor, Danticat writes, believes it doesn't matter if one is executed or exiled, but only that one have what she calls "the power to choose".
Two of Aquinas's brothers were caught up in wars between Emperor Frederick II and the papacy, and one was executed for treason.
Federal prosecutors have sought the death penalty for an accused terrorist at least 14 times since 1993, but only one was executed — Timothy McVeigh, the 1995 Oklahoma City federal-building bomber.
