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Anyone who condones torture simultaneously rejects the ideological values that define the United States. Systematically depriving people of their rights by electrocution, rape, or water-boarding contradicts the principles of this country. The war in Iraq, like the intervention in Kosovo, was supposed to reflect the U.S.�...

Author: By Bede A. Moore | Title: Torturing Justice | 11/23/2005 | See Source »

The riots, which stretched into their 12th night, claimed their first life yesterday and 1,400 vehicles were burned in 274 towns across France, authorities said. The violence began Oct. 27 in a Paris suburb when two teenage boys of African origin died from accidental electrocution while hiding from police...

Author: By Kathleen Pond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professors Divided over Paris Street Riots | 11/8/2005 | See Source »

Think that nothing of importance ever happened in August? That's how much you know. The first execution by electrocution was performed in August 1890. Judge Crater disappeared in August, plumb vanished from the middle of Manhattan. Britain's Great Train Robbery was pulled on Aug. 8, 1963, and Trotsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise of August | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

DIED. James Briley, 28, murderer convicted of killing a pregnant Virginia woman as well as her five-year-old son and implicated in other 1979 gang killings; by electrocution; in Richmond. The same electric chair six months earlier had claimed Briley's older brother Linwood, also convicted of multiple murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 29, 1985 | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

On the other hand, some experts on torture deeply doubt that members of an MP company from a small town could have come up with something like the pose seen in one of the most infamous images from Abu Ghraib--one in which a hooded prisoner stands on a box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Inside Abu Ghraib: Why Did They Do It? | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

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