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...hear oral arguments in a pair of Kentucky lawsuits challenging the lethal three-drug cocktail used in most U.S. executions. The gist of the cases is that the drug combination is unnecessarily complicated, using three chemicals when one would do, and that when this procedure is administered by undertrained prison officials, there's an unconstitutional risk that something will go wrong. Instead of going to a quiet death, an inmate could experience terrifying paralysis followed by excruciating pain...
...Saturday morning, shortly after 8 a.m. local time, the man called "the Aussie Taliban" walked free from Adelaide's Yatala Prison in South Australia. Having served nine months for supporting al-Qaeda terrorists, David Matthew Hicks, 32, in jeans and a green polo shirt, issued a brief statement through his lawyer, David McLeod: "I had hoped to be able to speak to the media, but I'm just not strong enough. It's as simple as that...
Outside the prison, Hicks' father, Terry Hicks, told TIME that his son has never had the chance to tell the real story of what happened to him and may never want to. "Everybody wants to know if he will write a book. We don't know," he said. "I keep saying he may change his mind, but he's said no." Under an agreement signed with U.S. authorities, David Hicks is prevented from profiting from any book deal and is subject to a 12-month gag order, which expires in March 2008. "The whole story needs to be told properly...
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Hicks was guarding a Taliban tank in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, before heading north to the front lines near Kunduz. He was then captured and handed over to U.S. troops for a fee, and transferred to the Guantánamo Bay Prison in Cuba, where he was detained for five years without charge - and where, his supporters say, he was beaten and tortured...
...Asif Ali Zardari for the top spot - and he will serve as co-chairman of the PPP. An experienced politician, Zardari served as Environment Minister in his wife's second administration. But he is also a controversial figure in Pakistan, and has spent a total of 11 years in prison on various charges including blackmail and corruption, for which he earned the nickname "Mr. 10%." Supporters dismiss these charges, most of which have been thrown out of Pakistani courts (a few are still pending), as politically related mischief. "He's a strong man," says PPP Senator Awan...