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Some of the malfeasance was more lethal. Perez's most incendiary story concerns the 1996 shooting of admitted gang member Javier Francisco Ovando. Ovando was a skinny 19-year-old whom Perez and his partner shot and then, according to Perez, planted a rifle on to make it look as if Ovando had attacked the police. Ovando was paralyzed, and may never walk again. The judge at the trial lambasted Ovando--who had to be wheeled in on a gurney--for endangering the lives of two hero policemen, before sentencing him to 23 years in prison. In September, Ovando...
EXECUTED. BETTY LOU BEETS, 62, a.k.a. "the Black Widow," convicted of murdering her fifth husband and indicted but never tried for murdering her fourth husband; by lethal injection; in Huntsville, Texas. Beets, who claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse, was the fourth woman put to death in the U.S. since 1976, when the Supreme Court allowed executions to resume...
...travel is slow. Helicopters can survey the rugged Andean terrain for coca and poppy fields, for crude drug-shipping airstrips hacked out of the vegetation and for the labs where the narcotraffickers produce illicit drugs. Armed and armored, the helicopters can protect unarmed crop-dusting planes as they spray lethal herbicides over thousands of acres of coca and poppy plants. And only helicopters can spot outlaw labs and airstrips and then deliver Colombian police and military forces to destroy them. This drug smothering from the air has a credible track record in the region, cutting narcotics production in both Bolivia...
EXECUTIONS Since the death penalty was reinstated, 611 people have been put to death*, most by relatively "humane" lethal injections...
...Lethal injection 450 Electrocution 145 Gas chamber 11 Hanging 3 Firing squad...