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There was a time when capital punishment was a legitimate issue in national politics. The debate could be found in the mainstream media, in political journals, and in academic discourse: Did the death penalty deter? Was it applied fairly or in a racially-biased manner? Was execution just punishment, or...
The classically trained company's execution of Feld's challenge to traditional ballet is commendable, with minor exceptions. The dancers falter during Feld's complicated, highly rhythmic patterns, when they lose their sense of the sequences' purpose and break their connection to each other in the chaos.
Cutting back and forth between the boy's story and his lawyer's arguments against capital punishment ("Since the days of Cain, no punishment has proven to be an adequate deterrent for murder."), the film culminates in Jacek's execution. The pandemonium surrounding the event belies the ideal of dispassionate...
They represent the ultimate urban horror. Anonymous, malevolent packages planted by any of the thousands of subway riders and set to kill huge numbers of passersby indiscriminately. The prospective victims are temporarily captives in a subterranean steel and concrete execution chamber, and they could have died by simply by drawing...
There is another side to the story not visible in the scrapbook or part of the government's tour. To see it, one must meet clandestinely with F.I.S. contacts who, in fearful asides, offer tales of summary killings by government security forces. Terrified civilians whisper of special execution brigades, dressed...