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...from inmates, and executions are often deliberately botched so that the condemned person remains alive while the organs are removed, according to the study. "That is vivisection," said an Asia Watch researcher. The report comes at a sensitive time -- just as U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown is preparing to escort a group of top U.S. ceos on a whirlwind tour of China. Hours before his arrival on Saturday, police detained prominent dissident Wang Dan, a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and an outspoken critic of Beijing's policies...
Paul Hill, the anti-abortion radical charged with shooting a doctor and his escort outside a Pensacola, Fla., clinic, pleaded not guilty to murder charges. Hill, who had previously pleaded innocent to violating a new federal clinic protection law, had no other comments for the Pensacola judge. Hill-watchers are expecting the activist to turn his trial into another ideological platform. His previous bully pulpit, before the Florida deaths: "Donahue," "Nightline" and other TV shows, where he proclaimed that killing abortionists...
Scheidler refuses to identify the man other than to say he was not Paul Hill, who also attended the Chicago conference and who now stands accused of murdering Pensacola, Florida, doctor John Bayard Britton and his unarmed escort, James Barrett. But future inquisitors may not let it rest at that. Last week the FBI initiated a 90-day preliminary investigation into a suspected violent conspiracy among pro-life activists. If the investigation discovers additional evidence of criminal activity, a full-fledged inquiry could follow...
Anti-abortion activist Paul Hill pleaded not guilty to a new federal law meant to get tough with protesters who block abortion clinics or threaten clinic employees. Hill is accused of gunning down an abortion doctor and his escort in a Pensacola, Fla. clinic on July 29. Hill's lawyer said that he planned to challenge the constitutionality of the federal law that took effect in May. Separately, Hill faces state charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with the shooting...
...grand jury indicted anti-abortion extremist Paul Hill on two first-degree, premeditated murder counts in the shootings of an abortion doctor and his escort outside their Pensacola, Fla., clinic last week. Hill, the former Presbyterian minister who advocates killing abortionists as "justifiable homicide," faces the death penalty. The escort, James Barrett, was buried yesterday. Today would have been his 75th birthday...