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The charge of murder, however, is particularly sensitive, since it is universally regarded as among the worst of crimes. In 1989 the U.S. received a rare rebuff from the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Jens Soering, who was arrested in Britain after murdering his girlfriend's...
"Collecting information from prisoners is a winnowing process," says an American officer. The U.S. rates prisoners A through C for the value of their knowledge, and 1 through 3 for their willingness to talk. About 1 in 4 of the more than 2,000 EPWs are defectors. Many braved threats...
-- EPWs have told interrogators that their company commanders were held directly accountable for desertions and that all troops were forced to sign an oath promising not to defect. Some EPWs told of seeing fellow soldiers hanged by loyalist execution squads and left suspended as a warning to would-be runaways...
Although the practice has died down recently, teenage judges presided over so-called people's courts that almost casually handed out death sentences to suspected traitors. A youth invention that has not disappeared is "necklacing," the method of mob execution in which a gasoline-doused rubber tire is thrown around...
IMAGINE HOW FOOLISH major historical events would seem had previous generations been made to use the same glorified silly putty that is forced upon us. Martin Luther gumming his 95 Theses to the door of Wittenburg Church just doesn't resonate with theological thunder. Nebuchadnezzer's Hanging Gardens of Babylon...