Word: lethally
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...roads, more children in school, the appearance of a few shopping centers in Kabul. But the improvements in the lives of many Afghans are tempered by the country's persistent insecurity, which is fueled by a rampant drug trade and a Taliban-led insurgency growing more brazen, sophisticated and lethal. More than 1,600 Afghans and 99 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat last year, the bloodiest period since the fall of the Taliban. Since the beginning of 2006, eight more Americans have died, including one last week. Few believe the fighting is likely to subside. Lieut. General Michael Maples...
...fiery scene depicting a Maya city?s obsession with the kilned limestone used for the temples in which some of the crowd may soon be sacrificed to the gods. Holding a Camel cigarette in one hand and a bullhorn in the other, Gibson put on his best bug-eyed Lethal Weapon face and pleaded with them to "show more fear, more trepidation! It?s like Mars! It?s hell on Earth!" When most of them gave him blank stares, Gibson sheepishly turned to the crew. "Traduccion, por favor" ? translation, please...
...Lethal injection, a subject of controversy in the U.S., was once expected to allay public squeamishness about the DEATH PENALTY...
...tough with violent criminals, to kill the killers, seems on the verge of putting the nation's 15 electric chairs, nine gas chambers, several gallows and ad hoc firing squads back to regular work. In addition, five states have a new and peculiarly American technique for killing, lethal anesthesia injections, which could increase public acceptance of executions ... For years, the capital-punishment debate has been sporadic and mainly intramural ... But now an old array of tough questions--practical, legal, moral, even metaphysical--is being examined. Is the death penalty an effective, much less a necessary, deterrent to murder...
...Mona Cadena, a regional field director for Amnesty International agrees. "Time will tell whether it strikes a blow against lethal injections. But talking about having someone enter the death chamber to administer the drugs takes away the anonymity that [the current method of hooking the inmate up to a machine outside the room] puts in place and will force us to decide who will take responsibility for ending a human life, which is a hard thing to ask someone...