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...Omen A Scottish safari-park chimp pickpocketed a warden's cell phone and was detected only when he began placing shrieking prank calls to staff members...
...went quietly. A prison warden swung open the door to his 36-sq.-ft. cell and told him it was time to go. "Where?" Slobodan Milosevic asked softly. "The Hague," said the warden. Milosevic nodded, changed from his sweatsuit to an open-necked shirt, and joined his armed escort. They made their way through the central prison's corridors toward a small rear door, where a white-and-blue police van was waiting. He was whisked to a helicopter pad outside Belgrade and met by agents from the United Nations war-crimes tribunal. Six and a half hours later...
...they came too late. Just before 6 p.m., the warden of Belgrade's Central Prison entered Milosevic's cell. He was surrounded by several policemen. "Get ready to go," the warden said. When Milosevic asked where, the warden told him, "To the Hague." Milosevic got up, changed out of his track suit and into a jacket and tie and went with the police. A blue-and-white van, commonly used for transporting prisoners, sped past a group of unwitting journalists and headed for a police base in the nearby suburb of Batajnica, where officials from the United Nations' war-crimes...
...morning of the execution, and made a point, witnesses said, of seeking out eye contact with each person who was there to see him die. After the lethal injection was delivered he lay still on the gurney, covered by a white sheet. At 7:14 Central Time, the warden pronounced him dead...
...Still, public executions - the last of which were in the 1930s in this country - have some surprising proponents. Burl Cain, the warden of Louisiana's Angola prison, thinks future killers might be deterred if they could see the fear in the eyes of condemned inmates. Groups opposing the death penalty have come down on both sides of the issue, some arguing that public views would change if people watched the act of government-sanctioned killings. In 1994, Ohio judge Anthony Calabrese ordered that the execution of double murderer Tyson Dixson be conducted publicly, should Dixson's appeals fail. "We have...