Not an officially recognised execution but a pretty spectacular state murder, nevertheless - the best of the modern ones IMO
There would have been plenty about The Birmingham Six and The Guildford Four had the "Hang 'em and flog 'em crowd got their way
Jim Carroll

O'Hara, Hughes, McCreesh and Sands by Seamus MacMathunna.

Young Irishmen, I pray attend and listen to the news I'll tell,
For I sing no lay from a bygone day but of brave young men we all knew well,
Young men who died that freedom's light may shine so bright throughout the land,
For no braver men has Ireland seen than O'Hara, Hughes, McCreesh and Sands.

Young Irishmen in Ulster born, with no right to freedom, work or hope,
Oppressed by ruthless, racist laws that break men's minds and wreck men's homes,
And when the bloodhounds came at night to terror strike across the land,
With their tanks and guns, took poor men's sons, O'Hara, Hughes, McCreesh and Sands.

And in the hell of the H-Block cells where tyrants tried to break men's wills,
Where boots and bars leave lifelong scars, those brave men's spirits ne'er did yield
And words of Christ ran in men's minds, who shall lay down his life for his fellow
man The volunteers without dread or fear were O'Hara, Hughes, McCreesh and Sands.

Now for three-score days those brave men lay in duel with Thatcher's tyranny,
And Britain's churchmen came to say that no clergymen their souls could free,
But far and wide, in tears, in pride, all their stories told through foreign lands,
So your voices raise and we'll sing the praise of O'Hara, Hughes, McCreesh and Sands

Ah, but brave men die and slick men lie and weak men turn their heads away,
But short the hour of those in power who truth and the rights of men betray,
For the fight goes on and will ne'er be done while one man's unfree in this fair
land, And in freedoms days we'll sing the praise of O'Hara, Hughes, McCreesh and Sands.