The lethal injection machine appeared to malfunction. Luis Am lcar Cetino died after about nine minutes' of apparent pain and Tom s Cerrate died some seven minutes after receiving his injection. In 1989 more than 1,500 executions were announced in the official press. Twelve women and three men were stoned during one session in the football stadium in Bushehr. Rwanda Twenty-two prisoners were publicly executed in front of large crowds in a football stadium in Rwanda in 1998.
Many executions are by beheading with a sword in public squares.
These are often carried out on Fridays, sometimes with the condemned having no warning or even knowledge of the fact that they are actually under a sentence of death.