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...like the prohibition in Common Article 3 against "outrages upon personal dignity"--Bush would remove Geneva references from the U.S.'s 1996 War Crimes Act, which provides penalties up to death for abuse of detainees. Instead, he would identify nine violations: torture, cruel or inhuman treatment, performing biological experiments, murder, mutilation or maiming, intentionally causing great suffering or serious injury, rape, sexual assault or abuse and taking hostages. The bill states that these prohibitions "shall fully satisfy United States obligations" under Geneva. It would apply retroactively to all detentions after 9/11 to provide some legal protection to U.S. jailers...
...they are in reasonable fear for their lives. According to sources familiar with the Haditha inquiries, six to eight Marines will probably be charged in the episode as early as next week. Wuterich is expected to be among those charged with the most serious crimes, which could include murder, for which he could face the death penalty...
...become rap's first cult figure. For Wallace the issue is justice. She has spent the past four years embroiled in a wrongful-death suit against the city of Los Angeles. The suit alleges that crooked L.A.P.D. cops conspired with Death Row records owner Suge Knight to have Biggie murdered. (Knight has denied the allegation.) In July, her actions forced the L.A.P.D. to assign a new task force to investigate the murder...
Doesn't Shakur want justice for Tupac? She isn't holding her breath. One of the principal suspects, Orlando Anderson, was killed a year and a half later, and the investigation seems to have stopped. "They still haven't solved Malcolm's murder. They still haven't solved Martin's murder," Shakur says, alluding to the suspicions around the deaths of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. In a flash, the fire of her Panther past rears up. "When they solve those, then they can get to Tupac...
...this point that fiction and fact violently intersect. For the James Ellroy novel on which Brian De Palma's movie is based, weaves many of the known facts of the infamous (and unsolved) murder of 1947 into its fictional narrative. The crime was about as grisly as any ever recorded: the nude body of an aspiring movie actress named Betty Short was discovered in an empty lot in Los Angles. It was severed in two and forensic evidence indicated that she had been tortured and sodomized before death, with her organs removed and the blood drained from her body after...