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A fast- and short-acting general anesthetic, it has been used to put convicts under and make executions methodical.

In January campaigners forced the government to drop a plan to put convicts to work on fishing boats a policy probably intended to dampen demand for bonded labour.

Up until 2010, six institutions put convicts to work on government-run prison farms that fed other inmates across the country.

Utah carried out the country's last execution by firing squad in 2010, when the state put convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner to death.

The last two scheduled executions of the year are set to be carried out later this week, with Texas due to put convicted murderer Raphael Holiday to death on Wednesday and Georgia fixed to execute convicted murderer Marcus Johnson on Thursday.

The death penalty phase will mark the first time since the 1950's that a federal jury in Manhattan will be mulling the question of whether to put convicted men to death.

Its Department of Criminal Justice is scheduled to put convicted murder Ramiro Hernandez Llanas to death on April 9, using the same pentobarbital-based method as in the Sells execution.

The last two executions of the year are set to be carried out next week, with Texas scheduled to put convicted murderer Raphael Holiday to death on Wednesday and Georgia scheduled to execute convicted murderer Marcus Johnson on Thursday.

One of the next executions in the United States is scheduled for May 16, when Georgia, which has the nation's strictest secrecy law, will put convicted murderer J.W. Ledford to death.

Ursula Bentele, a professor at Brooklyn Law School who has joined in a supporting brief urging the Court of Appeals to declare the death penalty unconstitutional, said that despite the Johnson ruling, some death penalty opponents believe Judge Kaye remains philosophically opposed to putting convicts to death.

Sometimes, he says, there's just no wiggle room at all, in which case he prepares criminals and their families for what they're in for, by doing everything from taking them on field trips to see prisons and observe how visits work, to putting convicts in touch with people serving at the same facility that they're headed for.