But Virginia has been executing convicted murderers fairly regularly under its state homicide statute.

The justices have allowed states to execute the mentally retarded and murderers who were juveniles at the time of their crimes.

Used to be only executed murderers were dissected, as punishment for the most hateful of crimes.

The gas cloud will be bloody lethal, like what you chaps use in America to execute murderers, but rather less pleasant.

They executed murderers by hanging them upside down and shooting them full of arrows.

"I don't know about other places, but in Virginia they only execute murderers once. "

But it is not all that great of a preparation for standing on national television and having an average citizen ask whether you actually enjoy executing murderers.

Your country is afraid to execute convicted murderers.

It might mean executing insane or retarded murderers simply because society cannot afford to keep them alive.

Mr. Cruise plays a future cop in a world where law enforcement is allowed to execute murderers before they've actually killed.