A popular, but probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, " He is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that the threat is stronger than the execution.

However though both Penni and Giulio were sufficiently skilled that distinguishing between their hands and that of Raphael himself is still sometimes difficult, there is no doubt that many of Raphael's later wall-paintings, and probably some of his easel paintings, are more notable for their design than their execution.

Traditional execution by decapitation by sword or axe were notably gruesome, and the aforementioned design was probably conceived in an attempt to improve the accuracy and effectiveness ; however, no reference to its actual use has been found.

Very little blood flowed, due to his weakness, and the strong feeling was that, even had the execution not taken place, he probably would not have lived for long.

There were several priests dedicated to the service of Tezcatlipoca, one of them was probably the one Sahagún calls " huitznahuac teohua omacatl ", others were the calmeca teteuctin who were allowed to eat the ritual food offered to Tezcatlipoca, others accompanied the Ixiptlatli impersonator of Tezcatlipoca in the year prior to his execution.

The King probably thought of the killing as an execution rather than murder.

The death of John Sassamon and the subsequent trial and execution of the Indians-while not the cause of King Philip's War and the bloodshed that followed-nonetheless probably contributed to the ardor of the participants.

On 27 December of the same year he returned to Scotland and effected the downfall and execution of Morton by producing a bond, probably that in defence of Bothwell and to promote his marriage with Mary, and giving evidence of the latter's knowledge of Bothwell's intention to murder Darnley.

This high degree of cleanliness is probably due to having been written from scratch and with security in mind, by an experienced developer ( who was not responsible for two of the three remote code execution flaws ).

Estrin later commented: " As I look back now, if we had systematically laid out a detailed plan of execution we would probably have aborted the project.

After his capture the Bishop of Vercelli consulted with the Inquisition and other eminent people to decide an immediate execution ( in fact the acts of the trial were never found, despite some suggestions that they could be hidden somewhere in the secret archives of the Vatican ) so the paper of the Anonymous Synchronous, probably written by a follower or a local symphatizer of the Dulcinian, the one of Bernardo Gui and another anonymous paper ( probably also written by Bernardo Gui ) are the only documents we have that were written in the same period the facts took place.

In his editorials, Scott was hostile to militant suffragettes, whom he accused of employing ' every engine of misguided fanaticism in order to wreck, if it be in their power, the fair prospects of their cause ' He was just as disturbed by the General Strike of 1926, hoping ' Will not the General Strike cease to be counted henceforth as a possible or legitimate weapon of industrial warfare ' Irish rebels were authors of their own destruction he thought, writing on the execution of Padraig Pearse and James Connolly after the Easter Uprising in Dublin ' it is a fate which they invoked and of which they probably would not complain '

Because the machine code of the jump is already read into the PIQ, and probably also already executed by the processor ( superscalar processors execute several instructions at once, but they " pretend " that they don't because of the need for backward compatibility ), the change of the code will not have any change of the execution flow.

There a rumours, which are probably not reliable, which claims that Kádár visited Rákosi to tell him about his reaction to the execution.

The facts are that Veprik spent four years in a prison camp and Mieczysław Weinberg, who was released in June 1953, had been saved from prosecution, and probably from execution, only because of Stalin's death.

Dr Edleston, in his preface to Newton's correspondence with Cotes, justly remarks: " If Flamsteed the Astronomer-Royal had cordially co-operated with him in the humble capacity of an observer in the way that Newton pointed out and requested Of him ... the lunar theory would, if its creator did not overrate his own powers, have been completely investigated, so far as he could do it, in the first few months of 1695, and a second edition of the Principia would probably have followed the execution of the task at no long interval.

He executed each order without scruples, probably saving him from facing an execution squad himself.

A law probably dating to the dictatorship of Julius Caesar defined rape as forced sex against " boy, woman, or anyone "; the rapist was subject to execution, a rare penalty in Roman law.

The writer Camilo José Cela obtained a garrote ( which had probably been used for the execution of Puig Antich ) from the Consejo General del Poder Judicial to display at his foundation.

The execution of a royal prince was a great provocation to the seventeen-year-old Edward III, who had not been informed about the decision, and it probably contributed to the king's decision to rise up against his protector.

Arguably the first machine to use out-of-order execution was probably the CDC 6600 ( 1964 ), which used a scoreboard to resolve conflicts.

As Dr. Taylor neared the day of his execution he spoke these words on February 7, 1555 ( probably ) Taylor was taken back to his own place of Rectory-Hadleigh-where his wife awaited him in the early morning hours at St. Botolph's churchyard.

This probably was to prevent the abuse of some clauses and to avoid utilization of execution as a means of judicial murder or elimination of enemies.

Previously there was a de facto moratorium on the death penalty in Turkey as the last execution took place in 1984.

Henry Garnet's execution took place on 3 May 1606.

Capital punishment in the Isle of Man was formally abolished by Tynwald in 1993 ( although the last execution on the island took place in 1872 ).

He defended Salman Rushdie, the novelist who was subject to a fatwā requiring Rushdie's execution by Ayatollah Khomeini, and took a strongly pro-interventionist position against Serbia during its conflict with Croatia and Bosnia, supporting NATO forces whilst citing defence of civilian populations in the latter countries.

He officially took position as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( CJCS ) on October 1, 2001. he served as the principal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council during the earliest stages of the War on Terror, including planning of the War in Afghanistan and planning and execution of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The trial and execution of Socrates took place in 399 BC.

The execution took place on 6 July 1535.

His governorship was the first in which no state executions took place, due to his opposition to capital punishment and his practice of pardoning and commuting the sentences of people condemned to execution.

His execution took place on June 11, 2001 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Before his execution, McVeigh took the Catholic sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.

Eventually, fearing imprisonment and possible execution, Ockham, Michael of Cesena and other Franciscan sympathizers fled Avignon on 26 May 1328, and eventually took refuge in the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria-who was also engaged in dispute with the papacy, and became Ockham's patron.

Regardless, Zinoviev put up such resistance against the guards that, instead of taking him to the appointed execution room, the guards took him into a nearby cell and shot him there.

After Turner's execution, a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, took it upon himself to publish " The Confessions of Nat Turner ", derived partly from research done while Turner was in hiding and partly from jailhouse conversations with Turner before trial.

In his fourth and final argument, which took place in the Temple of Concordia, Cicero establishes a basis for other orators ( primarily Cato ) to argue for the execution of the conspirators.

The military service record of Eddie Slovik, which is now a public archival record available from the Military Personnel Records Center, provides a detailed account of the actual execution of Slovik which took place in 1945 and it was upon this that most of the film The Execution of Private Slovik was based.

The famous and pivotal scene described in Chapter 10, in which Pilar describes the execution of various fascist figures in her village is drawn from events that took place in Ronda in 1936.

During 1985 and 1986, the National Security Adviser and certain staff members took a particularly activist role in the formulation and execution of policy in the Caribbean, Central America, and the Middle East.

The last execution took place on March 4, 1947, as Francesco La Barbera, Giovanni Puleo and Giovanni D ' Ignoti, sentenced to death on multiple accounts of robbery and murder, faced the firing squad at the range of Basse di Stura, near Turin.

The execution took place on the Burton Road in Derby.

The last execution at Lancaster took place in 1910.

The execution took place in Guaymas, on August 12, 1854, in an area located in the north of the town square.

The execution of Gary Gilmore took place there on January 24, 1977.

Peter took forceful measures against this, including the execution of at least five anti-Jewish leaders of a riot.

Kolchak, being of the opinion that the person responsible for planning operations should take part in their execution, was always on board those ships which carried out the operations and sometimes took direct command of the destroyer flotillas.