Word: brutalize
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...enthusiastically backed the decision. "I thought it was too simple to talk about," he says in a clipped Texas cadence. But after prosecuting violent crime for a quarter-century, Earle doesn't believe capital punishment is so simple. To be sure, he still supports death for those few brutal murderers he believes would never stop killing, even in prison. And Earle can still summon the swagger of your typical TV district attorney. He says executing serial killer Kenneth McDuff, who is thought to have murdered at least 11 people, was "like shooting a rabid...
...international press groups and human-rights organizations as a sham. The two journalists were arrested on June 4 in the country's northeast, where they were reporting on an insurgency by ethnic Hmong guerrillas. A Hmong-American interpreter was also freed, but two Laotian guides remained in prison. Brutal Youth JAPAN A 12-year-old boy admitted murdering 4-year-old Shun Tanemoto by pushing him off the roof of an eight-story parking garage, leading shocked Japanese to question their laws on juvenile crime. Because the killer is below the age of 14, he cannot be held criminally responsible...
...vowed to reassert his control. "Terrorists must be plucked out of the basements and caves and destroyed," he said after the attack on the rock festival. The tough talk echoed his promise during the 1999 election campaign "to rub out the terrorists on the john," remarks that preceded a brutal crackdown in Chechnya in which an untold number of Chechens and at least 6,000 Russian soldiers died. Shortly before his death, Shchek-ochikhin, the 53-year-old Deputy Chair of the State Duma's Security Committee and an outspoken opponent of the war in Chechnya, warned against just such...
...think of Sept. 11, when over 3,000 of our civilians died because of brutal attacks, based on false pretences. I feel ashamed for my country, which has sanctioned the killing of thousands more innocents, based on false pretences. Was our killing any less horrid, justified by faked evidence rather than religious fundamentalism? I should think the suffering of an orphan would be just as great, whether she lost her mother in the World Trade Center or the Baghdad ghetto...
...West and Central Africa have been plagued by deep-rooted ethnic and political instability that has sustained brutal conflicts across a number of the region's borders, most of which were drawn by the European colonial powers during the 19th century to deliberately bisect traditional nations and kingdoms to create divided colonies which could be more easily ruled from abroad. Once these colonies became independent, control of the state typically meant control over the natural resources coveted by Western importers, making state power the primary economic prize over which generals, demagogues and warlords competed - and control over those resources often...