According to the BBC, Lebanon recently resumed carrying out the death penalty for the first time since 1998.
In 1994 Lebanon expanded its capital punishment statutes to increase the number of executions. The executions stopped, however, after Salim Hoss became prime minister. Hoss is an opponent of capital punishment and refused to sign off on death sentences. Since the law required the prime minister’s signature on any death sentence order, executions came to a halt.
Hoss is no longer the prime minister, so the executions have once again started.
Source:
Death penalty resumes in Lebanon. The BBC, January 17, 2004.