Justice Ministry officials, for their part, insist that their system of secret executions is the most humane form of capital punishment.

A7 China ordered a secret execution of dissidents, Amnesty International said.

Kabuki herself is one of eight masked assassins whom perform these secret executions under the General's orders.

However Ahn reported that in the 1990s they were replaced by secret executions, as the security guards feared riots from the assembled crowd.

Many were probably long since dead, victims of secret executions that have been chronicled in Western human rights reports.

Amnesty International has documented secret executions, perhaps as many as 10,000, since June 4.

A rare piece, in both conception and execution, is a rifle disguised as a walking stick, which was used for secret executions.

Even now there are secret executions.

Concluding that their conspiracy had been discovered, they started to fear they would soon suffer court martial and secret execution.

Public and secret executions of prisoners, even children, especially in cases of attempted escape are commonplace.